I am only slightly familiar with Dwaynes, as I have several friends in the
lab business, and we live about an hour from Dwaynes, and those guys all
talk.
Their original business was with small mom and pop drugstores. Film was
shipped to them, and they would print and process and return to the
drugstores. They did no retail work.
I understood that a few years ago, they were the only ones that handled disc
film. As few as five years ago, they did thousands of reprints a week from
that stuff. They continued to do instamatic and pocket instamatic film
recently, and I think ektachrome was added many years ago.
When the web came along, they added retail mail order. Then, along came
Kodak. I'll bet that Kodak tried to auction off the Kodachrome processing
and Dwaynes was the only taker. I suspect that they use one of the old
"Kodachrome mini-labs" that went nowhere.
Fuji used to do E6 in Arizona, but I'll bet it's Dwaynes now. I would
suppose that any current use of chrome film is by professional and advanced
amateur photographers, and they all have found a pro lab to do their work,
so any Fuji does is amateur scraps.
Bill Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] E-620
> Bill,
>
> I used Wal-Mart regular processing for several years, for print film, and,
> so far as I know, it was done at this lab. I have not shot slide film in
> many, many years, so I can't speak directly of that. In recent years, I
> have
> used Wal-Mart 1-hour processing, CD only.
>
> I always thought Dwaynes worked primarily with slide film. I have never
> used them.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sue Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] E-620
>
>
>> This is a lab that processes and prints film? All the stuff on the web
>> indicates that they got out of that business and gave it to Dwaynes. What
>> a
>> strange world.
>>
>> Bill Pearce
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] E-620
>>
>>
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> We have a local Fuji Film lab about 1 1/2 miles from my house, where
>>> they
>>> took over an early Wal-Mart building some years ago. I read in the
>>> local
>>> paper that they have increased their workforce. They may have
>>> consolidated
>>> several labs here, because the lot in front always has a number of
>>> trucks
>>> of
>>> all sizes. When I go to a nearby supermarket, the lab always appears to
>>> be
>>> a beehive of activity.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:59 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [OM] E-620
>>>
>>>
>>>>I understand and accept the fact that certain regions of the world may
>>>>be
>>>>a
>>>> bit less film-friendly than others. I'm able to shoot consumer print
>>>> film
>>>> and have it processed for a total of about 18 cents ($0.18 USD) per
>>>> frame.
>>>> That's quite reasonable and in reality, has never been less expensive.
>>>> Today's Gold 200 is actually very remarkable.
>>>>
>>>> AG
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