Re: RE:Buying used lenses in Scandinavia

[Harri Haavisto]

Thanks for the tips!
Harri, since you are local, what are your favorite photo labs in Tampere?
I buy my slide film at Aammattikuva (8.60 Euro for Provia/Velvia, 8.00 
Euro > for
Sensia with prepaid developing), have it developed at Eiri Kuva (Foto 
Hertell)
for 3.36 Euro. I also buy print film there (NPH, HP5 ). Strange thing, 
developing negatives (w/o pictures) costs about 5 Euros, that is more 
than E6
processing.
Well, I dont have "favorite" lab, ealier I used "Hertell/Eiri" a lot 
(Hertell is/was good place to buy film cheaply "in quandities", also 
only good source for B&W material in town) especially for prints, but 
after I begun to scan films I was very disapointed to the quality of 
Eiri (lost of small black dots) and there was also biger chemical spots 
occasinally. After that I tried Ammattikuvat and others and finally 
settled for Rajala/Color Kolmio. Not perfect for quality, but it has 
best for quality/price ratio nearby (this side of rapid), especially for 
process prepaid Fuji.

But after buing *ist D, I have shot only slides (~1 roll/month)...
For printing I only tried Super Kuva and Eiri Kuva and the results 
were quite
unconvincing. In Super Kuva they do not even bother looking at the 
prints or
adjusting color balance and contrast, etc.
That was main point why I bougth film scanner,was to have more control 
for end result (you can get better result if you scan film yourself and 
send result for "digital online printing", than sending film to mass 
lab).

We have a slide scanner at school (Tampere Uni of Technology), as well as 
great darkroom (with Rodenstock lens on enlarger, and the chemicals are 
free). So I  will be shooting a lot of BW this year.

Michal
Have good photos, though season in Finland is now very poor for 
photography (dark day round and no snow).

Harri