[rollei_list] Re: Independent film labs and photo stores
- From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:38:48 -0800
For my cheap 35mm C41, I have been buying Ferrania in bulk. Apparently
they bought the old 3m "Scotch" film production line? For 120 & 4x5, I
buy from Freestyle -- but long gone are the days when I could get color
processing for rollfilm except by mail. I worked in the 70s for Star
Photo in Madison Wisc, and they did it all in house, but that was 30
years ago. Anyone know how they are doing? There was tension there
between the cheap "drugstore" market and the high-end, and we seriously
debated spinning off the professional services (but couldn't get
financing).
What's left? Of course Wally World loves digital, the markup is
horrendous and the planned obsolescence is blatant. Pop Photo knows the
advertisers butter its bread, so who's to argue? As long as my M2 and my
Automats destroy the products of my Mother's D2s, I'll sit where I sit.
Ican pick the digicam work off the gallery walls, its UNSHARP. Looks
like box camera work.
Peter Nebergall.
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:47:08 -0500 "Robert Lilley"
<54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Mike,
>
> I was just dealing with all this - death, taxes and the finial days
> of film.
>
> We have lost 4 relatively large camera stores in NW New Jersey
> during the
> past year (that I know of) - some that were in existence for over 50
> years.
> There are only two left in driving distance - one is small and does
> a lousy
> processing job and I expect it to die this year. The other is
> located over
> the border in PA and is dedicated to digital output more so than
> film
> processing. They only handle 35mm film and I wonder how long they
> will
> continue to do so.
>
> I am a 'filmophile' amateur but like the big boys I am going to
> start
> mailing out to a dedicated film color lab for all my 120 and 4x5
> color
> negatives - perhaps yours. Its either that or I start processing
> color film
> at home which may well become a viable option as I have been doing
> B&W. I am
> using my Toyo 45A 4x5 more and more these days and just bought a
> Fujifilm
> Quickload holder so to use their Quickload packaged film. I like
> Fugifilm
> and this will make it easy to send out. Hereto I have been
> "driving" my old
> Fidelity film holders and 120 roll film over to the camera store
> with the
> lousy processing (dirt and streaks on the negs).
>
> I see large format as being the last film holdout and predict more
> and more
> of us baby boomers will gravitate to it - hell, you can 'see' the
> stuff on
> the screen and the mandatory tripod holds the thing steady.
> Actually, I
> think I read somewhere that LF camera sales are on the increase.
> Not a huge
> photographic market share - but enough to support it's supporting
> industry
> for my lifetime at least - I hope. Aaah, you never know, digital
> film backs
> may drop in price like large flat HDTV's but I somehow doubt it.
>
>
> I think 35mm film will follow as the drugstore will soon be the only
> place
> left. I don't trust local Wally World and drugstore processing in
> that it's
> all happy snaps. Would you trust someone with acne and raging
> hormones to
> change the chemistry and clean the processor?
>
> I use an Epson V750 scanner and an Epson R2400 printer for general
> output
> but I would like to have a professional help with what I feel is my
> good
> stuff. I have not worked with a mail to color lab before and am not
> sure
> how wishes are communicated in this case.
>
> What's housing and taxes go for out there :)? I just retired and
> can't/don't want to afford NJ.
>
> Rob
>
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