haris Posted October 21, 2008 Share #21 Posted October 21, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Alessando, I am afraid you are right. They (labs) set theire macines to serve majority of consumers (auto sharpness and colour boosting), and if you want them to swich off that automatisation you need to make lots of prints. Otherwise, labs don't find financial viability to spend time for swiching off and on automatisation just to make one or 10 prints for you. Atleast it is situation here, and I belive that is more and more all over the place. Try pro labs, and be ready to PAY Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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haris Posted October 21, 2008 Share #22 Posted October 21, 2008 Thank you very much Luigi. But the questions remains: where in the hell have gone all the old developing and printing machines, that for sure still work properly? Too costly to have them. New machines make prints from digital media (cards, DVD, CD, etc...), negative and slide on same machine. So, having that machine, for digital media printing, and another one for negative printing, that is to fill both with chemistry and maintining them is too costly for labs. That is why labs have only one for everything. Old machines, when they pay themselves (and most of them did that) go to scrap, or to third world countries where people still use mostly film Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro Fanchin Posted October 21, 2008 Author Share #23 Posted October 21, 2008 Too costly to have them. New machines make prints from digital media (cards, DVD, CD, etc...), negative and slide on same machine. So, having that machine, for digital media printing, and another one for negative printing, that is to fill both with chemistry and maintining them is too costly for labs. That is why labs have only one for everything. Old machines, when they pay themselves (and most of them did that) go to scrap, or to third world countries where people still use mostly film Interesting. Maybe we could find a very nice third world place where to go for living, and find the right lab! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alifie Posted October 22, 2008 Share #24 Posted October 22, 2008 I gave some cameras (SLR AF stuff) to an AIDS charity where they where going to use them to document cases etc.. There must be some real film labs out there (the third world) that would welcome some income from the likes of us first world photographers. I bet the results would be good, not sure about the reliability of the post. BTW what is the second world? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted October 22, 2008 Share #25 Posted October 22, 2008 BTW what is the second world? The Americas. Old world, new world, third world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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