----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: No question mark about Polaroid film (was Re: Kodak to sell offfilm production?)
> Stan Halpin wrote: >> I just had pictures take for passport renewal. They used a Polaroid. >> Much faster and easier than digital. > > Wow. I didn't think anyone was still using Polaroid for that! > FWIW: There are digital passport photo systems now that are *much* > faster and easier than Polaroid - we used them all the time at the photo > store where I worked for a while here in Pittsburgh. Think about the > dreaded "eye blink during the exposure" effect! After a couple of those > on Polaroid I'd have been ready to cut my wrists! Our local passport office has turned into the Picture Nazis. If they can find the slightest flaw in the picture, they will reject it. We had one come back where the person's glasses fram was obscuring the top of the eyelid, rejected because the eyes were obscured. The slightest shadow on the background is a deal killer, as is the background bright enough to cause a veiling flare (damned Nikon zooms). I think they are rejecting something like 1 in 4, all for the most trifling of faults. If we had to do it with Polaroids, we would have dropped the service entirely. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
