I had a great experiance with Kellards.com especially with
enlargments. they are well priced and use only Kodak Royal Paper so it
gives you more of a saturated and heavy feel.
Give them a try and let me know what you think.
> I recently used Clark Color, Snapfish, Mystic (all part of the District
> Photo monopoly) for some digi prints. The quality was surprisingly good. I
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> Todd
No commercial processor is using inkjets... I do at home and they are
slow, but my Epson 1280 creates wonderful prints with no lines...
Clark Color always did crap processing... you get what you pay for...
there is a reason I spend 16.00 bucks to process a roll of 36... I get
excellent pictures, properly exposed no matter what subject ot lighting
I throw at them... the guy running the machine understands photography,
negative density and is pretty darn good at deriviing the intent of the
photographer.
20 years ago when I worked in a photo store, a customer bought a Canon
AE1 from me. We gave a free roll of Fujicolor and processing with the
camera sale. He shot the roll and was happy. From that point on he
bought a mix of Kodak and Fuji film from me.. but had it processed
elsewhere. A couple of months later, he came in complaining the camera
was malfunctioning. His pictures were blurry and washed out. I
remembered his first roll Great photos? No. But they were clear and
sharp. I suspected processing was the issue, He brought in some
examples. The paper was that horrible textured stuff of the 70's
(INMHO developed to hide the imperfections of the cheap 110 cartridge
cameras). After a couple of weeks, I finally convinced him to send a
roll though our lab. He was suprised at the results, Sharp and
properly exposed. Turns out he is was sending the film to Clark for at
that time 1.49 a roll... we cost 5.99. . He became a faithful
customer.. and even took some decent photos.
Mystic when it was based in Connectiut was a great photo processor..
not the most expensive but not the cheapest. I used them for years.
Some my best stuff came out of their labs. Something went ary. I
don't know what, but the quality drifted off, I had to send stuff back
for reprinting. I stopped using them. Eventually, I learned the got
swallowed up by the house of mediocrity.. Clark Color. A sad story.
Jim