Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html