Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ok I'm a lurker [recently rejoined to the Lug after several years absence]! Unlike many of you, at least many of the more prolific posters, I admit myself to be a part time hobbyist photographer who happens to use a Leica [primarily because I feel actual ownership of the picture which is very nice on the few occasions I get something I really like]...I don't have Photoshop, a slide scanner, an inkjet printer or a website so I can't show you anything of mine [actually the sharing of pictures on the LUG is the one thing that could almost persuade me to join the digital era]...also I don't do my own darkroom printer [I realise from recent posts that this disqualifies me from being a photographer in some people's eyes although the quaint English expression 'bollocks' springs to my mind] so I rely on others to develop the films and then on others to print the odd photograph - here in the UK I have never found a pro-lab that either prints quality black and white or who will even approach fibre based paper printing. For many years a wonderful photographer and master printer called Barry Thornton used to develop and print my films/occasional picture - unfortunately [and this really is a time when the word I use is simply not fitting for its task] Barry died a little while back...it seems selfish and cavalier [mentioning death and the search for quality photographic printing in the same sentance] to reduce this text to the next part about searching around the UK to find someone else who could produce a print as fine as a [leica] lens is able to take but I have tried for nearly two years and to no avail. so my question - does any UK lugger [or indeed any lugger] know of someone who can and will [for remuneration] produce the sort of fine print that many of you [equipped with years of experience and/or real darkroom/photoshop experience] are able to achieve for yourself. if anyone has any recommendations please let me know, it would be a real favour! Leopold [England]