DrTebi
Slide Lover
Hello,
I was wondering if there are any RFF members who live in San Francisco, and what your recommendations are regarding E6 slide developing.
So far I have had most of my films developed by Photoworks SF. They do a nice job, but I noticed that the slides seem to be handled a bit careless at times--a roll I have just scanned shows a trace of one fingerprints on each slide, not a "fat" one, but it definitely leaves a lot of marks when scanning at high resolution. ICE has sometimes trouble to clean that up... I also noticed a few black dots, which I believe are usually a sign of an expired film(?). My films were however not expired, and had been kept in the fridge. They did go through the carry-on luggage x-ray though.
Anyway, I am paying about $9.00 per developed 120 roll, which is OK. But if there is another place you can recommend, I would love to try them out.
Also, I wonder, what's the story anyway... As far as I know, Photoworks does not do it's own developing, but sends the films to another lab (which one I don't know). Is this something that everyone does in the City, as in there is only one actual E6 lab in SF? It's confusing...
I was wondering if there are any RFF members who live in San Francisco, and what your recommendations are regarding E6 slide developing.
So far I have had most of my films developed by Photoworks SF. They do a nice job, but I noticed that the slides seem to be handled a bit careless at times--a roll I have just scanned shows a trace of one fingerprints on each slide, not a "fat" one, but it definitely leaves a lot of marks when scanning at high resolution. ICE has sometimes trouble to clean that up... I also noticed a few black dots, which I believe are usually a sign of an expired film(?). My films were however not expired, and had been kept in the fridge. They did go through the carry-on luggage x-ray though.
Anyway, I am paying about $9.00 per developed 120 roll, which is OK. But if there is another place you can recommend, I would love to try them out.
Also, I wonder, what's the story anyway... As far as I know, Photoworks does not do it's own developing, but sends the films to another lab (which one I don't know). Is this something that everyone does in the City, as in there is only one actual E6 lab in SF? It's confusing...
