Re: [APML] Best way to get prints/processing

[Mark Kaye <mark.kaye@sympatico.ca>]

>Please let me know if you have any ideas.  Note: I live in a very small 
>community (North Wilkesboro, NC, USA) and we do not have any photo shops 
>other than Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Eckard, and CVS.

   Just because you live in a small community does not mean that you do not 
have talented and competent professional developers in your midst.  When I 
am at the Observatory, our developer is a private individual who lives by a 
lake out in the country.  He has a lovely house and a roaring photographic 
business in what would look like a nice country manor.  Found him in the 
yellow pages.  When we are at home, I use a Qlab.  Kodak lists these sites 
on their web page.  I have to drive for about 20 minutes to get to the lab, 
but it is worth it.  They listen and are very careful, they act like they 
want my business.
   One thing I recently learned.  Conventional wisdom often states start a 
roll of slide film with a few regularly exposed shots so that the cutter can 
gauge the roll and cut inbetween the frames.  One day, the woman who mounts 
the slides said to me that she had some trouble with the spacing and that 
she had to go to the start of the roll to cut the film.  I found out that 
they start with the end of the roll and cut towards the beginning!  So my 
advice would be to start and end a roll with regularly exposed shots so that 
any cutter will not be fooled.  You can always ask for the roll not to be 
cut, which I do if I know that there have been problems or conditions that 
will have affected the spacing of the frames.
   Clear skies!
               MK

The Observatory by the Lake
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mark.kaye/

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