Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Good lab for color
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@home.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:32:57 -0600
References: <OMECLMBEDIHCJHENBCPPKEFCCAAA.mkovuri@peoplepc.com>

Hi Mallik,

Try shooting B&W print film, develop and print it yourself.

Initially, you could take a community college darkroom course. Confirm
your interest, afterwards you should be able to rent a darkroom (quite
reasonably - I pay around $6.00 US/hour both when I'm up here and down
south) which has one or more enlargers and away you go. Then its on to
color, although I still shoot much more B&W.

I started out this way and have never been sorry I did so.

Regards,

Greg J. Lorenzo
Calgary, Alberta

Mallik Kovuri wrote:
> 
> I have being doing photography for the past many years using SLRs all along,
> I bought a Leica M6 couple of months back. It has 'renewed' my interest in
> photography immensely. So much so, it is becoming an obsession, drawing most
> of my attention these days. Photography is my' hobby'. I have never tried it
> for commercial objectives. As such, I cannot afford very expensive labs for
> processing my films (I take mostly color - print as well as slide). Most of
> my pictures were developed in a warehouse departmental store (Sams Club,
> Chicago) at very low rates. But Sams processing is not consistent, even if
> it gives an acceptably quality sometimes (I do like their 5X7 prints).
> Although A & I is probably a very good lab, it works out too expensive for
> me. More so considering that my picture-taking has increased manifold with
> the Leica in hand. Can LUGers help me identify something in between, a bit
> less than A&I but with an acceptable and 'consistent' quality?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
> 
> Mallik.
> 
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