Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Process and scanning to CD for wedding question
From: Simon Stevens <simon@camera-craftsman.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:12:29 -0500

Hi Michael.

I don't want to do the scans and CD burn myself for two reasons: First,
I don't have the time to scan 300+ images myself. And second, many of
them will be on medium format.

Personally, I don't particularly care for editing my proofs. I have
found that what to me may be a slightly substandard  may be the couples'
priceless picture with the once in a lifetime expression. This has
happened to me before & more than once clients have told me they resent
photographers editing their wedding.

So what I'm looking for is a lab who has the capability to run them off
quick and dirty as a part of the processing and printing/proofing, but
who also does good work in terms of the printing. If anyone has any
recommendations, I'm all ears. Thanks!

Simon Stevens

>Simon,

>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.

(SNIP)

>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