----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: OT: Interesting PMA numbers
> > Agreed. It was a good alternative (well, E6 was) and it was, in fact, > how I worked. But it was never more than a tiny minority of mainstream > film users (even if you include E6 as well). And by the time Fuji > Frontier and similar machines printing from slides fast and commonplace, > the digital nails were already in the film coffin. Interestingly, it took digital technology (scanning) to allow minilabs to print from slides in the first place. The first couple of generations of digital photolabs had film printing in mind, but the more recent ones treat film more like a retarded step child. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

