At 12:04 PM -0400 8/17/06, graywolf wrote: >Then you have never used even a merely decent lab.
You are probably right. > >But I will agree it was getting harder to find a decent lab outside of >very large cities in the decade or so prior to the event of digital. The >mini-labs were putting them out of business. You have to realize that >mass marketers do not run their mini-labs as profit centers, their main >purpose is to get people to wander about the store for an hour or so. I live in small town USA...a good 250 miles from a large city. I deal with a lab about a 45 minute drive from here. They are not a mass marketer; processing and printing (film and digital) is their only business, apart from selling P&S cameras, accessories, albums etc. That said, the bulk of their customers are obviously snapshooters who would not know a decent print if it came up and bit them. I'm sure if there were a Wal-Mart in the area then the majority of their customers would flock to it and they would be out of business in short order. They get my black and white business, my medium format and what little C41 I shoot. Process only, please, no prints. My 35mm slides (the bulk of what I shoot) go to Fuji/Dwayne's or Kodak. -- Steve Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
