[dropping in mid-thread 'cause I'm months behind]
Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of all the non-specialized labs, I like Wal-Mart's one-hour service.
> It looks like its relatively consistent acceptable quality.
> They usually don't mind redoing the prints if you don't like the
> colors, they do matte finish, and by doing it locally there is a
> smaller risk of a mixup.
Smaller risk of a mixup, agreed (they still did manage it but
getting it straightened out at the counter was feasible). As
to the rest ... well, "my mileage did vary".
I wasn't really thrilled with their printing (with their
throughput and schedule they haven't the time to correct
wrong guesses by the machine frame-by-frame), the folks
at the one I went to re-did prints grudgingly, and -- the
detail that finally chased me to the pro labs -- they
could not print what I saw in the viewfinder.
IIRC, they weren't as bad as wherever K-Mart sent film out
to, where they cut somebody's face in half on a group
photo then tried to tell me it was my mistake even when
I showed them the negative with a millimeter or so of space
between that person and the edge of the frame, but I was
still frustrated to be told that their machine was not
able to print as close to the edge of the frame as my
viewfinder let me compose, and I was tired of having to
try to remember, or guess, where the printing limit was
on each body I used. It defeated one of the cool features
of using an SLR in the first place.
(That being inside the nearest Wal-Mart store makes me
physically and mentally uncomfortable probably didn't
help. I'm not sure why that particular store bothers me
so much. I don't care for Wal-Mart in general, but most
of their stores don't affect me that strongly.)
So after a bunch of different bulk labs and one-hour labs,
I finally decided I needed to take my normal processing
to the same kind of lab that handled my push-processing
and my IR, and resigned myself to having to wait a lot
longer to save up enough money to pay for each batch of
processing.
-- Glenn
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