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Subject: [Leica] Contact Sheets from Costco!
From: mvolo at acpub.duke.edu (Michael Volow)
Date: Sun Oct 2 18:13:43 2005
References: <6.2.1.2.0.20051002195116.07ad0d50@imap.duke.edu>

How nice. Since I am from Durham also I'll have to try this--I assume you 
are referring to  the Durham, NC Costco. I had never used them for 
processing. How clean are your negatives when they are returned?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Sandler" <aaron.sandler@duke.edu>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 8:04 PM
Subject: [Leica] Contact Sheets from Costco!


> Maybe I'm the last person in the world to discover this, but...contact 
> sheets are not dead!
>
> I had been dreaming about being able to look over contact sheets of my 
> recent rolls while sitting in a cafe, and wishing that the little 4"x6" 
> index prints that the one-hour lab I use at the local Costco always makes 
> were big enough to be useful.  I knew they could print 8x12s, so I thought 
> there was no harm in asking whether they could make an 'index print' that 
> size.  "Of course," they said.  So, today I got my first digital versions 
> of contact sheets from my latest rolls and they're fantastic.  They're 
> cheap ($1.50 each!!!) and, even better, they are slightly enlarged and 
> easier to edit than a normal contact sheet!  What a revelation.
>
> So, now for my C-41 film, I will add the 8x12 'index print' to my standard 
> order of develop and scan to CD with all automatic adjustments turned off. 
> No prints, thank you very much.  Grand total (with tax) $7.50 per roll, 
> easy to edit, and enough quality for posting to the web.  Not bad at 
> all...might even make up for the increasing film costs!
>
> Hope someone finds this useful,
> Aaron
>
>
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