Problem is that consumer films (every brand I've
tried) with speeds above 400 look like crap to me. For
photo printing and such Ritz is my favorite place in
Rochester, they seem to have very clean machines that
produce very scratch free prints. The one at the
Marketplace Mall kind of has to be this way since it
gets a huge amount of business from RIT, which is a
school with lots of photography. At home I go to a
local 1hr portrait and developer who says that he
consistently breaks even or profits because we live in
a very rich town that doesn't mind paying lots extra
for exra services like retouching and working with a
picture to colorbalance it just right. He is very good
at this and can turn a muddy P&S family snapshot from
crap to acceptable or even good. I guess I have been
lucky, however my first test photos with the 24 shift
I took to CVS, big mistake, tons of scratches and dust
there. I avoid the grocery stores and wal marts at all
costs.
Mark Lloyd
--- ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I know we've discussed this before, so I'll get to
> my point of the posting- I
> was just at my local portrait studio which the owner
> also has a 1-Hr lab in
> the same store- and he told me something that
> surprised me. He says his
> portrait business is holding its own, while the 1-Hr
> lab's business is down
> 40%! He's thinking of closing it. Now, I know this
> is in a weird economy to
> begin with, and it's also post- Sept 11th, and we're
> only about 8 or 10 miles
> from 'Ground Zero' and, as such, many businesses are
> down from a year ago,
> there just doesn't seem to be all that many shoppers
> going from place to
> place around here. This guy has a first-class
> business and you are encouraged
> to tell the person at the counter (who also runs the
> machines) what you want
> from the developing, and if there's something you
> don't like in the final
> result, they cheerfully do it over. (But they never
> get it 'wrong' in the
> first place.)
>
> Do you have any info as to how the place is doing
> where you're filling in ? I
> think it's a case where everybody is just going to
> K-mart, Wal Mart, or a big
> drug store or supermarket for their photofinishing.
> It's a shame, because
> they don't know what good service they can get from
> a local place from people
> who know what they are doing.
>
> George S.
>
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