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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: automatic processing?
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 08:37:34 EDT
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> I mean, K-mart just sends of off to some REAL lab right?

At least in this area, K-Mart has a contract with the ColorCraft
Corporation, which in Orlando runs a very good lab called "Champagne
Photo".  They do a better job than anyone else I've found in Orlando,
though the results aren't as good as if you do them yourself.  They
even do better than the "Fox ProLab" here who you see advertising
in Modern Photography all the time.

> I kind of thought that many of these guys ship it off to one of those
> put-it-in-one-end-&-pix-come-out-the-other machines. Are these inferior?

They are fairly amazing machines... the fast ones can produce prints in the
tens of prints per second.  Obviously this is not as good as doing it
by hand, by any means, but some of the better ones do a surprisingly good
job on these 3R and 4R-sized prints.

> Do REAL people still hand process film in these fast turnaround places?
> (Overnight turnaround or it's free...) or is it a big machine?

The ones I've seen around here (they have them all over so the tourists can
get their pictures of Walt Disney World fast) are all medium-sized machines.
In my experience, a lot of these don't produce very good prints in terms
of color correction, though I suspect it may be the operator, since I've
seen the one at the major photo store (Colonial) here in operation, and it
does have a color analyzer built in... I think some places just don't know
how to work it very well.
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