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From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Photofinishing
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From: "Matamoros, Cesar A."
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> Just wanted to say thank you for clearing that up for me.
Maybe next time
> I am in the store I can talk my way into a tour :-)
Heck, we are just a hole in the Wal~Mart kiosk.<G>
Get a tour through a real lab sometime.
It is quite impressive to see what a full service lab like the
one I used to work at is capable of. We had E-6, C-41 and black
and white up to 4x5. We had half a dozen Lucht printers for pro
proofing, and 2 Gretag 3140s for amateur and 35mm proofing. We
had a full art department for retouching and also dry mount and
texturing up to 40 x 60 inch, which was the largest print size
we offered.
The copy room used Mamiya 6x7 and Linhof 4x5 for producing copy
negatives. We did not produce 35mm copy negs at all.
I enjoyed those days immensely, but unfortunately, the
photographic market here is not large enough to support that
type of facility anymore.
William Robb
William,
I will take a tour there too. I meant that I would tour 'my' lab
back home. I have walked back there enough. The owner was even showing
off some Epson commercial printer they got in while I was on vacation that
is limited in length only by the roll of paper left feeding the machine.
They do prints, both b&w and color, and slide processing. They also
do medium format. They do enlargements to a particular size.
[Side note - my friend 'borrowed' my slide (without my knowledge) that I
took of the WTC on 7 Sept. to make a large print for my birthday from a scan
of the slide - great job!]
I definitely consider them 'pro' in that they care about their work
and take pride in having a happy customer leave and return for more
business. I would hate to think what it would be like without them. I have
gotten lost in the back with all the machines surrounding me. I have sent a
few friends there and they have all commented that it was more expensive for
processing, but they could tell the difference.
Cesar Matamoros II
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