on 07/16/02 12:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared with me:
>> Seattle Filmworks used to sell 35mm movie film for use in cameras. They
>> sent me a few free roles, I never bothered with it. You had it send it
>> back to their lab for processing, its got its own special processing
>> method.
>>
>> Dunno about any of its qualities, but I';m sure there's plenty of info out
>> there on "seattle filmworks."
>
> This is correct. Used three rolls of their film back in 1990? terrible stuff,
> although I don't know what it's like now.
>
> Also, beware, there was a pending class-action lawsuit against them. I don't
> know how it turned out or the issues it raised. You can probably find info on
> the web about them.
>
> Your best bet would be to avoid them.
The lawsuit was settled. They are required to send all customers a coupon
free roll of C41 film in some percentage formula of their history of use, I
believe. ( I recieved a coupon good for one roll - anyone want it?) They
must also hereafter label rolls of film sold or given away "Process in C-41"
and state on the packaging that the film can be developed in C-41 in any
photo processor machine so designed, or somesuch. They must also state that
the "free" film is actually a cost included in the processing charge.
Implied is if you do not want the free roll, the cost remains the same.
In Seattle, there are dozens of small 12' x 20' shops located in strip
malls, neighborhoods and downtown where you can take your film and pick up a
new roll. They seem to do pretty good business with amateur photogs. But not
overwhelmingly so. Perhaps a handful of customers per hour at my closest
one, 3 blocks away, next to a lawyer, a mortgage broker and a Sudden
Printing shop.
Two things against them in my book. They charge more (the free film) than
most 1 hour shops, and they have to send the film out to the central lab for
developing and printing, which takes a minimum of 3 working days. You can
get them a day earlier, in "picture disk" resolution, by having the images
posted on the web. Costs less if you never want to get the negatives, but
the online images are gone in 30 days unless you download them.
A prudent step is to get the negs returned, use the online pics to share
with subjects or relatives, choose the best of them for Costco $7.00 each
11x14 prints, now a Kodak captured business involving a kiosk and choices
more limited than the paper form you used before the switch. To get anything
larger than 8x10, you must type in a note specifying a larger print, and not
use the kiosk's printed label. But the store 1 hour photo clerks say the lab
reject half of those with inserts saying they make nothing larger than 8x10.
I asked for a 16x20, and got a full frame obviously sized into a "poster"
sized panorama print, and not trimmed. Rolled in a triangular shipping box.
$14.00. Of the two negs I included, they printed the less sharp one in which
the fill flash failed. That was ok this time, as it was a group shot I was
going to crop top and bottom anyway, and it let me know which neg was fuzzy.
Now I will have the other printed elsewhere.
Ya see, when you don't post often, you post too much!
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