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Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Digital Musings
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 08:36:52 +1000



> DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx <DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Fellow Zuiks,

I guess there have already been a lot of responses to this one, but I haven't 
read 
through them yet, but commenting anyhow !

> 
> 1.  Beautiful photo of grand daughter compromised by idiot processor

Find a decent lab.

> 
> 2.  Washed out florals due to "old" chemicals at a different
> processor

Find a decent lab.

> 
> 3.  Ordered cropped 8 x 10 prints from Kodak; got back 8 X 12s with a
>         
>      mimeographed explanation of the aspect ratio of 35mm film and
> why I 
> really wanted 8 x 12s.

The price you paid for the 8x12 prints probably can't justify custom cropping - 
if 
you have the whole frame printed you can trim it to 8x10 to fit a frame or 
whatever.  Otherwise go to a pro lab and get the print cropped to your 
specification.

> 
> 4.  It costs $12.50 to have a roll of 24 exp Portra ( or any other
> negative 
> film) developed and 4 X 6 printed at a local pro lab.

Sounds about right.

> 
> I could go on and on.  In my little photography world involving
> children and 
> the San Diego scene we do alot of print scanning on a flat bed
> scanner.  To 
> get better scans I need a slide/negative scanner and they cost $500
> or more.  
> Really good ones cost $2000 or more.  In all of the above cases I am
> using 
> the newer technology to convert and older technology so that it may
> be 
> manipulated by a third newer technology (computer).

True, the fewer the intermediate steps the better from a cost, quality and ease 
of 
use perspective.
> 
> I have about a 50 - 50 chance that either my films will be goofed up
> in 
> processing or that a third party will decide what I should have
> rather than 
> what I ordered.

See previous comments - you obviously aren't using a good lab.  The minilab I 
deal with has stuffed 1 film of mine in the last 8 years, that's 1 too many, 
but a 
much better average than you have been getting.

>  And it is damned expensive to boot.

I pay $AU19 (that's about $US10) for 36 6x4 prints. 

> If I were to acquire a quality digital camera I believe that I could 
> eliminate the involvement of the photo labs.  Then I would have only
> myself 
> to blame for image quality.

Always better to be able to blame somebody else !
  

Wayne Harridge

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge

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