Is your camera store Bass ackwards with Digital prints?

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Is your photofinisher this way? I can drop off a roll of 35mm film and it is
printed in about an hour at my local camera/photo store chain, but digital
files are sent off somewhere (to the location of their Fuji Frontier
printer) and have to be picked up the next day. They do have the Fuji
Finepix station at each location, but I'm not impressed with the quality. I
like the traditional chemical prints much better.

Rhetorical question, I guess. I know the cost of a digital lab is high, so
they can't put one in every location. The delay seems backward to swiftness
of digital photography.

John

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JohnR66 wrote:

> Is your photofinisher this way? I can drop off a roll of 35mm film and it is
> printed in about an hour at my local camera/photo store chain, but digital
> files are sent off somewhere (to the location of their Fuji Frontier
> printer) and have to be picked up the next day. They do have the Fuji
> Finepix station at each location, but I'm not impressed with the quality. I
> like the traditional chemical prints much better.
>
> Rhetorical question, I guess. I know the cost of a digital lab is high, so
> they can't put one in every location. The delay seems backward to swiftness
> of digital photography.

Get a better lab.. Many are still in transition from film to digital
so all places won't be equal. I recall just three years ago.. Few
photo outifts would even look at digital photos.

I have an outlet that does good work (In Canada.. London Drugs). They
have a Fuji printer at their store. I upload my photos in the morning,
then go pick up the completed prints after lunch. It's a 15 minute trip.

Not a bad deal..

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"JohnR66" <nospam@att.net> wrote in message
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> Is your photofinisher this way? I can drop off a roll of 35mm film and it
> is printed in about an hour at my local camera/photo store chain, but
> digital files are sent off somewhere (to the location of their Fuji
> Frontier printer) and have to be picked up the next day. They do have the
> Fuji Finepix station at each location, but I'm not impressed with the
> quality. I like the traditional chemical prints much better.
>
> Rhetorical question, I guess. I know the cost of a digital lab is high, so
> they can't put one in every location. The delay seems backward to
> swiftness of digital photography.
>
> John
>

My local Teds Camera Store often does them in 15 minutes for me and does a
first class job.

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Just found this one, www.photoexperts.gr

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major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician
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> There is only one lab in Iraklion that does digital printing directly, in
1
> hr.All others need you to give the card and pick them next morning.Even
the
> famous battery-selling chain, www.germanos.gr does digital printing, with
> uploading, but not 1 hr.
>
> --
> Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
> major in electrical engineering, freelance electrician
> FH von Iraklion-Kreta, freiberuflicher Elektriker
> dimtzort AT otenet DOT gr
> Ï "JohnR66" <nospam@att.net> Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá
> news:5%Vbe.658624$w62.362327@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > Is your photofinisher this way? I can drop off a roll of 35mm film and
it
> is
> > printed in about an hour at my local camera/photo store chain, but
digital
> > files are sent off somewhere (to the location of their Fuji Frontier
> > printer) and have to be picked up the next day. They do have the Fuji
> > Finepix station at each location, but I'm not impressed with the
quality.
> I
> > like the traditional chemical prints much better.
> >
> > Rhetorical question, I guess. I know the cost of a digital lab is high,
so
> > they can't put one in every location. The delay seems backward to
> swiftness
> > of digital photography.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
>
>

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In article <ur7ce.744$pe3.47@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
Steven M. Scharf <scharf.steven@linkearth.net> wrote:

>To get true chemical prints is something that you have to pay big bucks for,
>and it's done by specialty houses.

Really? I had not considered this, so I'm surprised that drugstore
prints from film are not optical/chemical prints.

So what kind of printers do they use? And are any consumer printers
equivalent to them? (I'm looking at the Canon i9900 right now).

Just curious, and particularly curious as to whether getting a printer
is really a false economy.

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Steven M. Scharf wrote:
> "james" <fishbowl@conservatory.com> wrote in message
> news:u0ace.2711$_o.2098@fed1read03...
>> In article <ur7ce.744$pe3.47@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
>> Steven M. Scharf <scharf.steven@linkearth.net> wrote:
>>
>>> To get true chemical prints is something that you have to pay big
>>> bucks for, and it's done by specialty houses.
>>
>> Really? I had not considered this, so I'm surprised that drugstore
>> prints from film are not optical/chemical prints.
>>
>> So what kind of printers do they use?
>
> Laser
>
>> And are any consumer printers
>> equivalent to them? (I'm looking at the Canon i9900 right now).
>
> I don't think that there are any consumer printers that can compare.
>
>> Just curious, and particularly curious as to whether getting a
>> printer is really a false economy.
>
> It is unlikely that you could buy ink and paper for less than what
> someplace like Costco or Wal-Mart charges for prints. And of course
> the prints from a mini-lab will last much longer.

Another consideration is: if you have come to digital photography and
morphed into an obsessive, as many do, adding home photo printing to
your repertoire—any printer beyond the card-reading 4x6ers—you will be
required to devote the remaining 20% of your waking hours to that
pursuit, making a total of something in the neighborhood of 174% of
available time.

Plus which, things keep changing, and you will either watch them pass
you by, or spend too much money on new stuff.

It's best to assign keeping-up to the professionals, and keep a little
True Art going on your desktop, if you _must_.

--
Frank ess

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>
> Another consideration is: if you have come to digital photography and
> morphed into an obsessive, as many do, adding home photo printing to
> your repertoire—any printer beyond the card-reading 4x6ers—you will be
> required to devote the remaining 20% of your waking hours to that
> pursuit, making a total of something in the neighborhood of 174% of
> available time.
>
> Plus which, things keep changing, and you will either watch them pass
> you by, or spend too much money on new stuff.
>
> It's best to assign keeping-up to the professionals, and keep a little
> True Art going on your desktop, if you _must_.
>

while I didn't do the math nor would I give this paper n A for killer
english clarity(perhaps the author is an ESL student) .. I think the
point is well made .......

save yer time and money and get those prints ya really need .... at a
shop or store that has those $50k+ printers ...........

really ...... they are better .. and cheaper for most folks compared to
owning and operating a home photo printer .....