> Difficulty in getting convenient processing is one reason. Many years > ago, when my Rolleiflex TLR was the only camera I had, I could drop film > off at a drug store or whatever and get back machine prints of snaps and > travel photos. Can't do that today. Maybe there are some 1-hour places > or the like that do 120 film, but I do not know of any. When I use the > Rollei now -- rarely -- I have to either go to a pro lab or find a > darkroom to work in myself.
In downtown Boston there are at least two "a few hours" places that do MF chromes, I drop the film off on my way to work and pick it up at lunch. The price is $6 for a roll of 120 film, which I think is quite reasonable. None of them does enlargements though. OTOH, I doubt that the drug stores used to make 16x20 prints even "many years ago", and for contact sheets, scanning on a cheap flat bad is good enough (and hard to beat the price!) The only real hassle, in my view, is lack of availability of 120 film -- there's no Kodak Supra/Royal Gold analog as far as I know, and of course, the only places you can buy it are pro stores, so if you run out of film, say, in Bryce Canyon -- tough luck. > But you do not need high end SLRs for casual use anyway; It is easy to > do what most folks do, use a 35mm P&S (or even drag out the PZ1-p) or LX > for snaps. What I seem to be ending up with is P&S for snapshots (Olympus Stylus Epic -- wonderful little camera, albeit with its limitations), LX for special needs, like macro, available light/darkness, very wide angle or long tele, and MF for pretty much anything else -- P6x7, or 'cord for hikes. - 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 .
