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

"Philip Homburg" <philip@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

> babelfish <babelfish2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>For those interested parties, I looked up our data and the profiles show

>>the
>>following black vales as measured in LAB color space:
>>
>>The local Costco = 11
>>Tech Photo = 2
>
> Interesting, my local el-cheapo lab seems to provide the same density as
> Costo.
>
> However, I can't find any of this spelled out on you website. So
> I guess you just have to rely on word of mouth advertising.

Word of mouth is pretty slow, but it's certain. We don't advertise so
that's 
how we've remained in business thirty years while nearly all of our 
competitors have closed. We always knew that we put more into our work
than 
the discounters, but I just recently decided to compare our profiles
against 
theirs as a way to prove just one aspect of it. I'm going to write up a
web 
page with the description and more charts for anyone who's interested. 
Unfortunately, the number of people who care about such things and are 
willing to pay for it are a quickly vanishing breed. My more realistic 
choices are to reduce our standards and prices to what everyone else does
or 
else close the lab. Not good choices. After thirty years of striving for 
excellence I've arrived at the point where sadly, there's no market for
it.