Rebekah wrote: > Thanks scott > > What awesome information, I'll definitely look around where I am for a > local store, although it seems like a doubtful situation. Have you > ever tried sending your film out to online developing/scanning > services? > > rg2 > > We used to send our C-41 to Clark Color. They're very affordable and often had free scanning. It wasn't high resolution, but it was good enough for web presentation. Quality had been very good, better than the big box mini-labs, for several years - printed on real, live photo paper. The C-41 B&W I sent them came back on traditional black and white paper. We were very pleased.
The last batch we sent them came back on HP ink jet paper that was so thin you could see the HP branding marks from the front. Colors were horrible. Even after less than a year, the photographs are starting to deteriorate. We haven't sent anything to them since. I don't have any other experience with that type of mail-order processor. As for the Fuji processing via Wal-Mart, it looks like Fuji operates several processing facilities in the US. My film ends up in Maryland. You may have better or worse luck elsewhere. However, they no longer operate their E-6 facility. All slide film sent to Fuji is now processed at Dwayne's Photo. They're the same folks who do Kodachrome and their quality is generally very good. Wal-Mart says to allow two weeks, but it's never taken more than 10 calendar days. It's usually back in about a week. One last thing - if you shoot any medium format, you can drop it off at Wal-Mart, too. They don't charge any differently per exposure than they do for 35mm. So a roll of 120 with prints works out to about $2. I wouldn't process someone's wedding photos that way, but it's certainly affordable. Just make sure you note on the envelope that it's 120 C-41. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
