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Subject: [Leica] Question for Walgreen Photo Users
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:56:07 -0500
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Thanks, Montie.  The one roll I had processed there in 2008 seems to have 
files that vary from 700kb to 1.3Mb.  I may give them a try again, and see 
what they are currently producing.  Sounds like their price has gone up 
considerably.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Montie Talbert" <montoid at earthlink.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Question for Walgreen Photo Users


> Jim, I use them all the time for color film processing and BW400cn, the 
> scans have recently morphed into very low res jpegs between 500-700kb at 
> 72 dpi, basically a digital proof sheet and OK for most web apps, forget 
> about printing them.
> A few years back (in Florida) they provided tiffs as well as 1.0meg + 
> jpegs but that's history. Now it's get less and pay more, about $8.75 per 
> 24 exp roll without prints.  :-(  Maybe it's better in TN. Higher res from 
> them not avail here.
>
> Montie
>
>>>Since our local Fuji film lab closed, and Wal-Mart quit doing 1-hour 
>>>processing, Walgreen seems to be the best local option for me.  In my 
>>>one-time experience with them, a year or so ago, I was not impressed with 
>>>the resolution of the CD that they provided.
>
> Does Walgreen offer a high-resolution CD as an option?  Their online site 
> hints at a resolution of about 1.6MB per image.  I seem to recall that the 
> images that I got from a Wal-Mart CD were quite a bit larger.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
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