I finally have a vehicle again (after an unlicensed, drunk car thief
totalled my car and some of my neighbours' cars a year ago), and a
friend asked me to shoot her wedding in May (I need to crawl through
the list archives for old threads about what it's reasonable to
charge so as to still be giving a friend a big break but not completely
undermine the full-time pros' ability to charge saner fees) so I headed
up to the lab to drop off some Velvia and to find out whether prices
were the same as the last time I'd checked.
*pout* They're gone. Front window papered over and a "for rent" sign
on it. Bleah.
So ... I searched online for photo labs in/near Baltimore, and so
far I'm finding a whole lot of one-hour services in drug stores
(*cringe*), one that looked promising until I dug deeper and saw
that they don't develop film, only scan it and make digital prints
(so I guess I could have the drug store develop it and then take
the negatives there ...), and one that doesn't list prices and
appears to only do machine prints (which, if the operator is serious
and skilled, will do a lot of the time, but I'd like to know where
to get colour done on an enlarger Just In Case).
I was also planning to shoot some HIE, but I don't know whether any
minilab machines are safe for that (I'll Google that later). I may
wind up having to develop the HIE myself (in which case I guess I'd
better shoot some practice rolls).
So: who's still shooting film in my neck of the woods, and where
do you take your colour film for processing?
-- Glenn
PS: I _might_ be able to borrow a DSLR for the day, but if I do,
it'll be a Nikon, since that's what three or four of my bandmates
are shooting. My own digicam is a 1.2 megapixel point&*shoot that
is not going to be suitable for shooting a wedding. But my K2 and
Program Plus are ready to go, if I can find a good place for the
processing.
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