Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Had a big scare today;; I shot a commercial job, then had a local > > supermarket develop the film. .... sorry - it sounds strange to me, that one who takes photography serious and invests in superb lenses like leica --- then take his films to a supermarket-lab or any similar......!! they are cheap - and so is the quality. they safe costs with poor replenishing, servicing, paper-quality, caring about your precious negs and accuracy. and if there are some, who do theyr job right - about paper-quality: according to the usual customer of a fast-lab with usualy not well exposed negs, they use low-contrast-paper, wich provides "good enough" prints with lots of different negs and brands. but the optimum of brillance like on the leica-negs comes out only with the corresponding paper-quality. only quality-printers will use it. i'm happy, that i've a lab close to my place (it is a one-hour-lab too), which has adequate quality-standards. they charge ATS 7,-- per print instead ATS 2,30 at the supermarket lab. thats quite a big difference. i'm not a big moneymaker - but for me, good prints are worth the money. regards, thomas imst, austria _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com