BTW, list is Gary. I got off my arse and hopefully changed the username field.
My gut feeling is scanning or even film developing is the low profit part of the business since many companies can provide scanning services. [Custom Labs in Berkeley being the only one to bite the dust as far as I know.] Lightjet (Fuji) or the other version that uses Kodak paper seem to be the high profit item. Besides Cantoo, Lightwaves in Berkeley provides such prints, as does one in Emeryville that slips my memory. [I never used the Emeryville shop, but a friend has made some very large digital prints there.] Since you are in the North Bay, maybe this scene will look familiar: http://www.lazygranch.com/images/marin/barney.jpg It's a part of Mt. Tam that faces the ocean, though we were a bit beneath grade. Whenever you try to do those shaft of light shots, they almost never look as dramatic as real life. In this particular case, the fog was slipping over the hill, so the fog made the shaft of light actually show up. [Fuji Astia 100F pushed one stop, Minolta 5400 II scanner.] Sam McCandless wrote: >>Sam, >> >>1) where do you live? > > > In Northern California, Brad, north of San Francisco - in "the North > Bay" - whereas "Lists" and CanToo.com are in "the East Bay". I'm > guessing there's a quite small film-scanner market much more local to > me. > > > >>And how much would you charge per 6X7 transparency or neg? > > > I don't know - nor, and what's worse, even how to decide. But for a > little speculation, see my response to "Lists" and also the CanToo > web site Lists referenced. > > > >>It sounds like an interesting idea. >> >>Brad > > > I'm glad you think so too. I think I'll explore it at least a little. > -- > Sam > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
