----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Reynolds" < Subject: Re: some interesting NG thoughts on digital consumers
> > I've visited our outlab a bunch of times (UAF/PhotoClick in Weston, ON), > and have been quite impressed with the speed of the new Noritsus vs. the > Frontiers they have. The Frontier seemed more flexible, but boy was it > slow. Of course, both were faster than the old Noritsu I learned on, > where one-hour photo ACTUALLY TOOK ONE FULL HOUR! ;) We can take a film in from the customer, and have packaged prints about 18 minutes later. Quite amazing how these minilabs have progressed from being a bad joke 20 years ago to todays machines that can turn out a roll of individually colour and density corrected prints in just over a quarter hour. Our digital lab (unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to play with it yet) is not as fast, nor as high capacity, but, is capable of producing colour, density AND contrast corrected prints. It can also 100% custom crop up to a 12x18 inch print size. The print quality isn't quite there yet, but the machine will be upgraded as higher capacity scanners and finer resolution print heads become available. This really is where the future is heading, and it is quite exciting. This is as big a deal as the invention of the negative/positive printing process was in the 1850's , or the invention of the colour printing process in the 1950s. Oh yes, the prints are done on regular RA-4 colour paper, so granny just has to step outside if she really wants to look at her old pictures by the light of her house burning to the ground. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
