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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Film and Labs / December 2004Wal-Mart's Online Photo Center - Change for the worse
I'm saddened to receive the email below from Wal-mart's photo center in regards to the fact that I can no longer download entire rolls from their online photo center. Can anyone recommend other photo processing dealers that have an interface for downloading developed 35mm pictures from the internet? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Trouble downloading photos Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:23:41 -0600 (CST) From: WalMart.com Photo <photo@walmart.com> To: **** ********** <************************> Dear ****, Thank you for contacting Walmart.com about our Photo Center. Your comments and questions are very important to us as we strive to meet your needs. The option to download an entire album at once is no longer available on the web site. This is a permanent change to the site. We apologize for any inconvenience. If we may be of further assistance, please email us at photo@walmart.com, or call us at 1-800-966-6546. We're here to serve you from 7am to 11pm CST, 7 days a week! Sincerely, **** You are apparently a very nice guy. "Saddened"?? I am boiling MAD! This is an outrage! To force a person to click 49 times the same series of buttons after he PAYED for this "service"?? This is close to torchure and should be panisheable. They lost me forever, and not only for the electronic picture service, but for film development as such. Well, considering that half of my visits to Walmart was due to photo development, guess what- I will go to other places to buy other stuff too. They made a BAD mistake, this one. I am not an angry person, rather moderate. So my guess is - most of the people will react just like me. I hope the idiot who invented this "inovation" gets his a.s fired, but that will already be too late to get back people who do not like to be treated like monkeys. Btw I join your request for info on other photo development service with results in electronic form. Regards, Evgenij > I'm saddened to receive the email below from Wal-mart's photo center in regards > to the fact that I can no longer download entire rolls from their online photo [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Sincerely, > **** Your reply got me to thinking about the quality of Wal-mart prints over the years. At one time, I remember that their overnight film development used Kodak processing. Excellent pictures. At some point they switched to Fuji and the pictures have become extremely grainy. If I wanted grainy pictures, I would not have purchased Kodak film, ya know? > Your reply got me to thinking about the quality of Wal-mart prints over > the years. At one time, I remember that their overnight film > development used Kodak processing. Excellent pictures. At some point > they switched to Fuji and the pictures have become extremely grainy. > If I wanted grainy pictures, I would not have purchased Kodak film, ya > know? BJ's and Costco still use Kodak (Qualex) print service. BJs charges only $3.99 to develop and print 24 5x7s! I have been unhappy with every batch of film I've ever sent to Wal-Mart or Sam's Club. Washed-out colors, unsharp prints (probably due to poor enlarging lenses, because the detail was on the negative, but not the print) and color balance that was awful. For example, grass that was Kelly green, and blue skies that were closer to gray than to blue. Kodak's processing has always produced better results. It is consistently the most bang for the buck--especially if you use the prints as proofs, and you scan your own negs for editing. I've seen others that have praised Wal-Mart's processing, but I am unable to say anything good about them based on my personal experiences. In rec.photo.film+labs O.B. <funkjunk@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Can anyone recommend other photo processing dealers that have an > interface for downloading developed 35mm pictures from the internet? Ofoto.com does this, although not for "full resolution" scans. > the years. At one time, I remember that [Walmart's] overnight film > development used Kodak processing. Excellent pictures. At some point > they switched to Fuji and the pictures have become extremely grainy. That's not grain, it's pixellation from scanning on a Fuji Frontier digital minilab. Some people think it makes their pictures look sharper. Others, like you, don't like it. The Agfa d-Lab.2 scans at 400 dpi instead of 300 dpi, so pixellation is less of an issue. Wasn't it Bill Tuthill who said... > > Can anyone recommend other photo processing dealers that have an > > interface for downloading developed 35mm pictures from the internet? > > Ofoto.com does this, although not for "full resolution" scans. Clark Color Labs (District Photo) can also do this, allowing 30 days for download of "hi resolution" (about 250ppi) files for an extra buck, I think. You can find their mailers in just about any Sunday newspaper. I use them for my 7 year-old daughter's film, and APS images come back "hi-res" at 1692x968 px. Given the size of the APS negatives, you can infer that 35mm scans would either be ~3000x2000 or 1500x1000. Maybe they have info on their site: clarkcolor.com  SignatureJoe Pucillo Baltimore, Maryland USA To reply by email, please remove the .xx > In rec.photo.film+labs O.B. <funkjunk@bellsouth.net> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Others, like you, don't like it. The Agfa d-Lab.2 scans at 400 dpi > instead of 300 dpi, so pixellation is less of an issue. Hang on... the print dpi may be 300/400, but certainly not the scan dpi. I've been told that for MF FujiFrontier can scan 3000x2000 (for, I assume 35mm). Cheers, Alan Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. > Hang on... the print dpi may be 300/400, but certainly not the scan dpi. > I've been told that for MF FujiFrontier can scan 3000x2000 (for, I assume > 35mm). The Frontier usually scans at about 2 megapixels, more or less. You can ask it to scan at about 16 megapixels, but apparently this takes a long time. The lab near me will do high resolution scans only during slow periods. Seasons Greetings. > > Hang on... the print dpi may be 300/400, but certainly not the scan dpi. > > I've been told that for MF FujiFrontier can scan 3000x2000 (for, I assume [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Seasons Greetings. The Frontier scans to make the output 300dpi at the print size. However, the standard FDI CD is almost always 300dpi at 6x4 (1800x1200). If you want a higher resolution a Pro CD can be made at up to 300dpi at 10x15 (4500x3000). -- Dooey |
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