Photo processing at most places has become a nasty joke. I look at photos
done by Fox Photo 10-20 years ago and it puts to shame almost every current
processing except pro labs. Digital photography and darkroom won't take
over because of any inherent superiority. It'll take over by default. Even
then it'll have to be a DIY job because the Wolf Photos of the world will
somehow manage to do crappy digital work no matter how idiot-proof the
equipment is.
Lex
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From: "Gary Edwards" <garyetx@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:31:22 -0500
...I've been taking it to Wolf Camera for processing and scanning to a
Kodak PictureCD...Thursday, I picked up a roll from the Benelux/European OM
disposal tour. Hmm. . . I know I've been having some problems with my
eyes, but I never blew the focus that badly before - on a whole roll, shot
mostly with a 24 mm, and the Eiffel Tower wasn't moving! The scans were
truly awful. Pull out the Zuiko 50 mm f/1.8 MC loupe (obligatory OM
content) and, sure enough, every frame on the whole roll of negatives was
nice and crisp. Well exposed, too.
Saturday was spent making two more trips halfway across town to Wolf to
convince the manager that something in the scanning was screwed up ("But
our machine is autofocus! Did you use a tripod? They're night shots, you
know. Oh, the negatives ARE sharp. That's never happened before!") and
then pick up the rescanned CD. OK this time, but. . .
Thank you Wolf Camera - that episode was the last little bit of
rationalization I needed to go out and buy the film scanner that I wanted
anyway.
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