Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:17 PM 1/8/01 -0800, Ted wrote: >It sounds great if you're only shooting a few rolls a week or even a day. But >put in cost perspective the printing of 150 rolls X 36 ? 5400 4X6's....... >$?????? And this would be from a single assignment. Clients already grumble at >being charged $50.00 per roll for film, processing and contact sheet. Imagine >their reaction to paying for 4X6 prints. OK Ted, I can't refute that logic. Alas, I went from shooting bricks a week in the late 80s to shooting only 4 or 5 rolls a week in the winter and really never many more than 15 or so a week in prime wedding season in the last few years. Even then 4X6s are the end product that most of my clients want and they are actually less costly for me to have printed (machine processed though custom printed) at my regular lab than getting contact sheets from each roll. Yep, you prolific pros do need something to tag each roll with that is compact I guess. How about an 11X14 sheet cut down to 8X14? You could use the 2X14 leftovers as test strips and not waste any film? I'm trying to eliminate the need for any but the final prints in my personal shooting by increasingly having my custom lab process my film and scan them to CD (with a thumbnail index print) instead of printing each roll. I can then file each CD with the negs and index prints in a small space. The index print images are individually digitally exposed on the card and aren't averaged. They are too small for most detail, but large enough for me to figure out what is on each CD. Eventually I'll have my own dark "bag," tanks, film dryer, film scanner, dedicated graphics computer and an Epson/Peizography setup. Then I'll regain some control over at least my B&W images. I haven't been in a darkroom for years and I miss that 2/3 of the equation of photography. One step at a time. a humbled, Michael E. Berube :)