In a message dated 12/6/01 1:07:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, aimcompute wrote: > > > I think Mafud does have a point here. There's a difference between > > taking your digital camera into a department store and getting their > > run-of-the-mill prints back, and taking it to a pro-lab. Same with > > film. > > "True, but that wasn't what the post was about. Mafud had said earlier > that getting a lab to make prints from digital files was a lot more > expensive than from film." Let me clarify: I use real "pro" labs, not Walmart. Had the original statement mentioned Walmart anyplace or as the "source" lab, I would not have commented. "I asked him to name a lab that charged more for digital to see if he really > place that charged an insane amount more, and he avoided the question > completely by going into an irrelevant rant about Wal~Mart." Why would I answer the then and now pointless question in that we don't live in the same cities, so any prices I might give would be meaningless where you live? ****I live in a metro area of under 700,000 people. You might live in a larger or smaller metro. You might live in a metro with higer/lower wages, higher/lower retail rents, or a place where there are dozens of graphics/pro labs/printers or just a few. But you and others have been disingenuous by flatly asserting that a "lab" (even here we have differences about what a "lab" is) can or would print digitals as cheaply as film. Maybe Walmart can and does. *****Though they are a retail giant whose sales (up 13% year to year since Thanksgiving), they sure as hoot aren't "labs," not in the sense a professional classifies "labs." ******As a Walmart spouse, when I need regular film processing done, I sure as hoot don't go to Walmart. Nope, I go across the road to SAM"s Club. Interestingly, the same processing that would cost you and me $4.99 at Walmart will cost us only $2.99 at Sam's. When I learned the same firm processed both Walmart and Sam's, I choose to save money at Sam's. ******Even with my 10% spousal discount, sometimes Walmart costs to darn much! > > accuses people of saying stuff that they didn't say. :)" Remember this: I'm under ~no~ obligation to answer pointed, "Do you still beat your wife" and other otherwise senseless, gratuitous questions. As to who said what: it's all mean spirited conversation or questions that as I have noted, don't deserve a direct answer. "> what lab > he had in mind because he probably just made that bit of info up on the > spot. :)" > chris > A minilab sitting in the middle of a Walmart is ~NOT~ a photo lab but a photo processor. Calling one of them a "lab" is a needless and meaningless gilding of the Lily. Mafud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 .
