Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I am looking for any good laboratory ... either in the NYC area of > by mail. That they could do contacts, prints, etc. There are of course gazillions of labs in NYC, with their own strengths and weaknesses. I'd point out one in particular though, because while many labs do good E6, and C41 developing and contacting, and big fancy prints, often the same labs do a terrible job with little snapshot prints. And sometimes, dammit, you *want* snapshot prints. The Spectra chain (with just enough exceptions to prove they're human) have for years provided me with decently-exposed, decently-color-balanced if color, decently sharp 4" x 6" snapshot prints. You ask for their "Premier" prints, glossy if you actually wish to see the detail in your photo, and they come back with little white borders and nearly the full frame of the negative printed -- a welcome exception to the radical crop some borderless prints inflict on you.