Dave O'Brien commented: > >as long as they don't screw up my negatives, I can still go > >get one or two "keepers" reprinted at a pro lab.) > > It's probably best to think of minilab prints as proofs and get your > 'keepers' done by a pro-lab.
*nod* _Exactly_. It's just that for anything but 3x10 panoramic prints, I've found the drug store labs to be too frustrating even for proofs(*). (Though if my current economic situation persists, I may have to reconsider. Bleah.) If 3x10 d&p cost less at a pro lab, or if it cost more at the drug store, the economic motivation for putting up with the drug store problems would go away. -- Glenn (*) Starting with the idea that even if proofs don't have to look as spectacular as final prints, it'd be nice if they were good enough to actually _judge_ the frame by. Many frames come out just fine for proof quality from those machines, but I got tired of the number of times I had to hand stuff back to be re-done for various reasons, and losing the folks on either end of a group photo (or more often, losing half a face on either end). Plus, I often put the best of my proofs in a 4x6 album to carry with me to show friends. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .