Man, the Agfa D-Labs sure seem like a better setup in regards to 120 film. I'm surprised they have to advance them by hand 1 frame at a time. The D-Lab reads a whole strip. I certainly agree that if the lab is not doing a lot of Pro work (good quality) that their ability to draw in much business for 120 will be very weak and it won't be cost effective.
I've talked with a few operators at the local Sam's Club and they have indicated that even though they have a new Frontier, the manager only cares about quantity and doesn't want them to do anything extra to make sure the quality is good. Consequently nobody that cares about quality goes there, only the extreme price conscious. That allows them to go for quantity without the customers getting too upset. Kind of a vicious circle. Bruce Thursday, November 7, 2002, 11:47:26 AM, you wrote: BB> Hi; BB> To get a Frontier to work with 120 film you would need to buy at least 1 BB> carrier ( about $750 ea) you technically need on for 645, 6x6, and 6x7 [and BB> 6x9 if desired] though you could just get a 6x7 carrier and use the free BB> cropping feature to crop to the smaller formats. You would have to set up BB> any 120 unique print sizes ( square anything, 4x5 etc) and I think you would BB> need to set up a 120 film channel, but I might be wrong on that. My guess is BB> that it is too much work for too little income addition for them to want to BB> do. Also if they are a chain, their home office might not let them do it if BB> they wanted. Also the 120 carriers are manual, so the negs or transparencies BB> must be advanced by hand 1 frame at a time. Unfortunately, if you have an BB> untrained operator running it you won't get the best results. BB> BUTCH BB> "Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself" BB> Hermann Hesse (Demian)
