Do you bring your camera memory card to the lab?

[Ko.Fe.]

Many of us doing it on film and digitally.
It just came to my mind, why I don't like to bring film to the lab anymore.

Do you bring your digital camera memory card to the place where they will check and process every file for correct exposure levels, color balance and other PP?
I don't. I'm using my own computer at my place.

If I don't need technician to process my digital computer files, I don't need lab to process my film. It is easy procedure. BW and color (including slides). Scanning is also simple. And you don't need very expensive scanner for it, same as you don't really need Apple to process files.

Yes, I was bringing film to the lab in the past. No film processing at home. In the same past I didn't process digital images on my computer. It was no computers in the past. Now we have computers, developing kits and internet with knowledge how to process files and film. And even online recipes for home mix and online suppliers of raw chemicals.

Time has changed. But you don't have to. Your mobile phone straight pictures on Facebook are new Polaroids. 🙂

 

[Mike Fish]

In a way, at the same time technological progress was "killing film" (a gross over statement) technological progress made processing your own film more accessible.

Easy access to information has made it possible to learn of and about things with greater speed and ease. Today you can anonymously discover and research something far easier than in the past.

The ever controversial stand development is an example. In the 70s I might have been able to hear about it if I read the right magazine, or knew the right person. The information I had would be limited to what those sources offered.

I could search out more information at the library. But what's the Dewey Decimal number for Stand Development? I guess I could read every darkroom book in the library with hopes of learning more. I could ask the grumpy old man at the local camera store - if he didn't dismiss my inquiry as stupid.

Today I can first hear about it on a blog or a forum, and then find out more while I'm eating my breakfast or riding on the train. I can comment and ask questions on the blog, or chime in on the forum. A quick Google search returns more than 60 million results.

I can source, price, and purchase what I need from home, even if I live in a small town without a thriving photographic community.

I could continue to develop this thought, but you - some of you - get the idea. Hopefully.

So in some ways technology has made "old school" things easier for the masses .

End of ramble...

-mike

 

[Cameron]

So basically, through all of that incoherent text, all you're really saying is: you can process digital files on your own computer, but you used to have your film processed, but now with greater resources you can process your film at home easier?

What?!

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Thank you, Mike, for great contribution to this thread!
And thanks to Cameron to read and understand!

 

[btgc]

Film is mine. Now when lab scans it to print anyway I can do it myself. If film gets scratched, bent, dropped on floor and walked over, it's my fault and no regrets, no angst.

When I think about lab I want temporary files which destroy themselves after they are printed. I don't like idea they are somewhere, probably not deleted after printing. Probably whole printing tech should change, like user-prepared non-viewable file which still can be printed one time.

 

[LesTele]

I've been expunged.

 

[FrankS]

Are you expunge worthy?


😉
(Seinfeld reference)

 

[LesTele]

Fairy nuff

 

[LesTele]

obliterate or remove completely, erase, remove, delete, rub out, wipe out

That's what happened.

Enjoy your forum.