Re: [Leica] Process and scanning to CD for wedding question

[MEBérubé <MEB@goodphotos.com>]

Simon,

I use a local pro lab to process and print my weddings. Average cost to 
process and print is about $15/roll 35 and $20/roll 220.

The main problem with having your rolls scanned to CD for presentation to a 
couple is that you loose your ability to control the images which they will 
see. Personally, I include the negatives for the couple in the price of 
their wedding, BUT before they see image one, I edit ANYTHING that would 
reflect poorly on my services to folks who may see the end product. When 
you have a lab scan all of your images to CD they scan ALL of the images 
and you don't get to choose without considerable costs to have the negs 
custom scanned.

A solution that I will be trying this year is to get an Iomega CD burner 
(about $200) and burn my own CDs for an added price for the couple. In most 
cases they just want the ability to email some shots to family and friends 
who couldn't make the ceremony. Scanning even the prints and burning them 
to CD myself will offer top web quality images and keep me in control of 
the process. In the past I've scanned a few choice shots by request and 
passed them on myself to the couple via email and we just skipped the CD part.

That's how I deal with it for the 15-20 or so weddings I shoot in the 
average year.
Carpe Luminem,
Michael

At 06:27 PM 2/12/01 -0500, Simon Stevens wrote:

>    I'm doing a wedding in a few weeks and the client has asked for scans
>on
>a format suitable for e-mailing. She's asked about photo CD, although I
>imagine jpeg's on regular CD roms would probably also work.
>
>The problem is neither of my usual labs can do this and I was wondering
>if any of the wedding photographers on the list could recommend one. I
>live in Washington, DC but I could ship the film to anywhere in the US.
>
>What I also need is a lab who will do a good job on the wedding photos
>with a solid channel for Portra and a printer who understands skin
>tones. I need the 120 film proofed with one set of 5x5" prints but the
>35mm printed as machine finals with two sets of 6x4". And of course, I'm
>looking for a reasonable rate. :)
>
>Can anyone help with a recommendation? Thanks!
>
>Simon Stevens