Again, I feel spoiled here in NYC: while two of the three minilabs we had in Park Slope bit the dust a while back (not particularly good, IMO), we still have the best one, and we have competent labs at both Rite Aid and CVS, the latter being the place I drop off much of my C41, and which recently revamped their entire photo department. I just have them soup the film and put it back in the little cardboard bag, without cutting. Cost is about $2.40 with tax, turnaround roughly two hours. (And, there are still a good number of pro labs in Mannahatta.)
I do worry about the processing scene farther afield. I wonder if there'll even be digital kiosks for people to get their prints from their digicams; more often than not, half those kiosks I come across have "out of order" signs on them. Perhaps the whole idea of printing anything is dying, too?
- Barrett
