Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alex, Your three rolls a week is roughly comparable to my output, which I estimate at around 200 rolls a year (about 2/3 slides and 1/3 b&w). On the rare occasions when I have shot colour negative film, I have been reasonably happy with the prints--but then again, I have dropped them off at a proper lab and not some drugstore. I have calculated my "keeper rate", and anyway any comparison with yours would be meaningless, since we may well have different standards. Nathan Alex Hurst wrote: > That's roughly 5000 shots a year, of which I would regard no more than 300 > shots as 'keepers' - in other words, prints I would keep for _myself_. Many > more than that do the rounds to family and friends, and they're more than > happy with them. But that's because the general standard of P&S photography > is so appalling, and anything taken in a reasonably competent fashion can't > help but look better. > > Now come clean, LUGnuts. Apart from pros like Ted et al., are you really > shifting enough film through those very expensive gizmos? And is your real > 'Keeper' strike rate any better than mine? > > I'd hate to learn that most of you are happy with those miserable, > maladjusted prints you get back from the lab. > > Slan > > Alex > > Alex Hurst > Waterfall > Nr. Cork > Ireland > > Tel: +353 21 543 328 (H) > +353 21 270 907 (W) > > Fax: +353 21 271 248 > email: corkflor@iol.ie > Also: corkflor.1@virgin.net (when in the UK, which isn't often) > Home website: http://homepages.iol.ie/~corkflor/ > Business website: http://www.flowerlink.com/corkflorists - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo site: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/