Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Keep looking. There are good labs out there. They will still on occasion make mistakes but so do you and I. With my lab I have only had one screw-up in two hundred rolls. A mounting machine went nuts and Ginsu knifed one roll. Heck if I had been extra cautious and mounted my own, they would have a perfect record. Personal relationships count for a great deal in this business/hobby. I bring my 3 year old son on all my lab visits and he really cuts the ice. On special holidays send cookies or flowers or whatever local custom dictates. Nice and friendly people get nice and friendly service. There are new "inexpensive" Kodachrome labs ($1 000 000US) available but I cannot imagine very many businesses would be willing to invest in one with digital taking off the way it is. E6 labs are peanuts by comparison so it will be available for a long time to come. My lab is a small operation that caters mostly to professionals and students. Their customers are not faceless and so they work hard to make them happy. John Collier - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html