I went to Rite Aid the other day to get some 1 hour processing. No go. They send ALL of their film to Portland, OR, now. So, I went across the street to CVS and they did 1 hour and the prints looked pretty good and they are wet prints.
It IS getting harder and harder to find places to develop film and print the old fashioned way. -Brendan ----- Original Message ---- > From: William Robb <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, March 3, 2010 11:59:21 AM > Subject: OT: The death of the photolab > > Well, perhaps that's a little dramatic, but.. Our local Wal-Mart got > Supersized, and with it, a brand new photolab. I stopped in for a visit a > couple > of nights ago and got a small tour. They still have a film processor, a > little siongle lane thing that is about the same size as a large suitcase. > Apparently it will do 15 rolls of film per hour. What really galled me was > the "printer". Kodak has gone to a dry print process, the new machine is more > or less a box with a rack of dye sub printers in it. As with every > "improvement" we have seen in the photographic industry over thepast century, > the quality has gone downhill yet again. I'm very happy that I gave up > photofinishing for 2x4s. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail > List > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[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. -- 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.
