Sorry I wasn't more specific. If I want something other than "vacation snaps" quality, the color corrected image file goes to a professional lab.
I have a house fll of professionally printed photos, all of them taken form the over 5000 frames of medium format film I've shot over the years. Dan On Apr 21, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Fmiser wrote: >> Dan wrote: >> >> It's actually cheaper to send pictures to Walgreens and pick them >> up an hour later. > > Cheaper - sure. But that isn't the only measure just like Mercedes > parts shouldn't be chosen by price alone. > > For example, what if you want the print to actually look like what > you edited? It's bad enough trying to color calibrate your own > printer, but it's pretty much impossible to calibrate to an > outsourced printer like one (of many?) at a Walgreens as you have > no control over which printer they use or how it could be changing > over time. > > There are some printing services that publish their printer > calibrations - but these are few and far between, and certainly not > price competitive with Walgreens! > > If you cared as much for you photo prints as you do you car > detailing, you'd never suggest such an thing! *smiles* > > -- Philip > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
