On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Jens <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > Sometimes I want the film-days back. Imagine how easy it is to shoot some > film and have a good lab develop the prints. The lab will darken the too > bright images, correct colors and brighten the to dark images. Then you > choose the 10 % best and send them for scanning. Then you give the CD to your > client. > > No more long hours at the computer converting or editing all your RAW files, > tagging them, filing them, changing hard drives etc. for your images. Just > give the client the prints and the CD. Get paid. End of story! > > Those where the days, ehh?
I was lucky to have had a terrific lab to work with. I'd go pick up my negs, look at them under a loupe, pick which ones I wanted to be made into 8x10 working prints and say "Robert, the usual, please!" I'd go back in a week and they'd be lovely (at least the printing would be). Then I'd pay him $14 a print and take them home. And there's the rub, right there in the last paragraph. Time and money. Film took a long time and was expensive. The results were great, but I do like shooting a hundred or more in an outing and having a bunch of them ready to go that night or next day. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
