Not only is your lab gone, but so is HIE unless you can find some older stock or have some in the freezer. Discontinued last fall by Kodak.
-Adam On 3/6/08, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
