Re: really no purpose anymore for traditional films (negative or diapositve) (by 2006) ?

babelfish <babelfish2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Well gee wiz. It's about time someone said the obvious. As a custom lab 
> owner for thirty years I'm still truly amazed at the number of people
who 
> convince themselves that all photo lab work is exactly the same except
for 
> the price. Then there are those more sophisticated folks who like to
believe 
> that the same equipment produces the same work no matter who's at the 
> controls, just like the same cameras produce the same shots in every 
> photographer's hands. Right? Get real. People make the difference in all

> professions and you have to pay for expertise. So just go on running to 
> WalMart and Costco for 13 cent prints. When the last real custom lab
dies, 
> you'll all just complain that no one does good work.
> 

You slam Costco, but for digital printing, they are hard to beat.  The
price
is right for sure.  They only print to 8x10, which is a real limitation
sometimes.  They do do a very good job with the images, especially if you
download their profiles and apply the profiles to your images for upload. 
The
only catch in this workflow that I really have noticed is that they have a
file size limit and do not accept TIFF.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse
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