On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 06:46:44AM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Francis" > > > >What is bogus is to lay the blame for the lowering of photographic > >standards at the feet of digital. Even before digital cameras > >showed up, it was getting increasingly difficult to find a lab > >that was capable of doing decent quality work - more and more > >were being put out of business by the minilabs. > > Don't lay the blame for something that was consumer driven at the feet of > the lab industry, all it did was do what the marketplace told it to do.
It wasn't my intention to suggest the "evil minilabs(TM)" were in any way responsible - I was just using them as an easily visible symptom of the well-established march to mediocrity.
