Interesting Conversation with Local Lab Tech...

[sig]

That would have to be for chromes surely ... I saw 35mm Fujichrome in a store in CBD Brisbane a while ago for $20.00 per roll! 😱

You hit the nail on the head, it was chromes. But the cost was 139 Aud, sorry for the misinformation.

 

[Spyro]

I remember when we had a bread and separate milk delivery to our front door. Cherish the memories.

Haha its happening again and I absolutely love it, check out www.aussiefarmers.com.au 😀

 

[shadowfox]

He told me the biggest trend has been among mother's returning to film, they are tired of spending time trying to get nice family photos from digital files and never getting anything printed, while they can drop a film off and return the next day to pick up an envelope of beautiful photos. Apparently these mum's are buying up the top-end point-n-shoot cameras, Contax T3, Nikon 35TI, Ricoh GR-1, and even Leica was on the list, considering them cheap compared to the next big digital thing.

I wasn't expecting that 🙂

What I have heard is the increasing number of professional wedding photographers offering film either exclusively or mixed with digital for their *higher-end* packages.

Either way, let's continue to use film, and tell anyone about its benefits. Thanks for reporting his, P.

 

[amateriat]

Before we know it they'll all be driving restored MG's and Jags and tootling off home to listen to a bit of Bob Marley on vinyl ...... on the gramaphone! 😀

Oh, Keith, if only...!

Over here (admittedly way aways from Oz...gotta get there one day, while I'm still on this mortal coil), Galfriend has owned both an Olympus OM-2S and Olympus Stylus (original), long before we met, and loves them. When she shoots color neg film, I do what I do with my own film: drop it off at the lab (pro lab in Manhattan or the local CVS a few blocks away, depending), have them develop it without even cutting the film, let along printing, and I scan it and make 5x7 or 8-1/2 x 11 prints of the "keepers." She's never once asked about getting a digital camera. Works for me. 🙂


- Barrett