Re: Another one bites the dust

On 12/20/2007 7:45 PM jjs spake thus:

> "Alvaro" <burnetdosdoses@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:fkeqem$6qk$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 >
>> At his point, it is hard to keep opened most of business based on 
>> photo-chemical processes so it is difficult to find suitable places to 
>> develop our "old" films and prints.
> 
> Speaking as one who does custom B&W printing, I do not welcome more 
> business. I  focus upon  customers who are successful in their B&W work
and 
> appreciate the prints, and can pay.
> 
> The field of custom printing has become narrow as the digital nutz go
their 
> way and a highly select group of qualified clients continue to work in 
> conventional B&W film.
> 
> Fewer custom printers is a good thing. It simply reflects the field vs.
the 
> digital mavens. It has come to the point that persons wanting quality
B&W 
> printing have to show us that their work is worth the $$ or bedamned .I 
> don''t care how mucn money you have. There is no shortage of qualified 
> photographers looking for good printing. Amateurs should look to Walmart
or 
> something.

Well, while fewer custom printers may or may not be a good thing, I can 
definitely say that *no* custom printers (in this case, no custom 
*color* printers in a very large part, if not all, of the San Francisco 
Bay Area) is a very bad thing.