Digital Might Not Be All Bad For Photo Print Shops
from the relying-on-laziness dept
With everyone using digital cameras and (now) camera phones, you'd think that the traditional photo print shops would be getting worried. Not necessarily. They're apparently betting that people will be lazy or uninterested in figuring out the details of printing at home, and will still bring in their digital photos to be printed professionally. They may be underestimating the public - and printer companies who are trying to make the process as easy as possible. Also, this might work for some period of time, but as the younger tech savvy generation grows up, they're going to be just fine printing at home.
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Wal-Mart is great!
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I'm with the photo labs on this one...
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Some photo labs are good
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Develop Your Own
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Aspect Ratio Questions
How long will it be until the photo processors can print digital photos in 4:3 ratio?
How long until photo albums and frames can handle 4:3 photos?
Since inkjet photo printers are specifically intended to print digital photos, why don't they print 4:3 photos, and why don't they sell 4:3 photo paper?
(Maybe the question should be: why don't digital cameras take photos in the 2:3 ratio used by film cameras?)
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Re: Aspect Ratio Questions
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Re: Aspect Ratio Questions
Some digital cameras let you shoot with a 3:2 aspect ratio, some don't.
If you shoot at a 4:3 ratio on your digital camera you can save it as a 4x6, 5x7, etc. and burn it to CD that way using a jpeg file format and it will print just fine at a lab like Costco, Wal-Mart, etc.
There are quite a bit of pros that come into Costco to get some work printed. You can go to Drycreekphoto.com and calibrate your monitor to the specs of the location where you'll be going. Therefore, any editing you do with your photos at home using Adobe PhotoShop, etc. will come out exactly like they appear on your monitor (as long as you calibrate it at the afforemnetioned website).
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Outsource, outsource, outsource
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Costco Digital Photo Print
Generally I am satisfied with quality and cost.
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retail digital printing
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As we can see above, there are plenty of tech-savvy people who have the ability to print their own photos but would rather have the lab do it. This doesn't mean they are lazy, it just means that maybe there is a better way than doing it yourself.
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Why print at all?
Why I agree with the "better quality paper" and "cheaper than ink" arguments I ask
Why Print At All?
I've had a PC hooked to the TV for years, copies of my pics on my desktop, laptop and home server and pretty nifty web based interface to show them from any machine. I've never liked passing pictures around being 2 or 3 behind as the first slow-poke in line get's the explanation of the contents while I guess "now THIS is Uncle Marvin? Or Aunt Melba???". Showing pics on the TV is not only larger but more fun as everyone get's to veiw them at once. Not to mention using a movie maker to make an actual presentation of the pictures - sound, narration - the whole works.
PC based multi-media centers for the home are getting cheaper and cheaper every day. Heck even a lot of PDA's will show the picture in a more "mobile" format.
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Re: Why print at all?
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foto time is money
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