If you decide to order some prints
PLEASE be patient! My real job takes up to sixty or so hours
of my time during the week, in fact I have pretty much stopped
doing any train shows. I usually work six days a week and that
doesn't allow much time for me to get photos sent out to be made.
I'll try to keep you informed as to the progress of your order.
I also can no longer do special requests for photos larger then
4x6, it just takes up too much of my time.
If you are wondering why it takes longer to have 8x10's made
as opposed to doing the 4x6 prints, the reason is that I no longer
actually send the slides out to be printed. I scan them and then
touch them up so that the color is correct and that there are
no dirt specks or other things that you might get if you sent
it out to a conventional processing lab. I then upload them to
a online photo processing lab that does excellent work and returns
the 4x6 prints to me fairly quickly and they blow the doors off
of Kodak and Fuji processing.
I have about 4000 prints available and I scan them when someone
orders them. The good thing is that once I scan them I just save
the file for the next time. Folks who look at the prints have
no idea that they started out as a digital file, its just very
time consuming to touch them up as I don't like dirt or scratches
showing up on my prints and I don't think you do either. This
was one of the problems that I had with Kodak and Fuji. Kodak
was great at cropping the slide wrong and printing it with dirt
specks, Fuji liked to print the slides dark almost every time
so I gave up on both of them. If you need the prints in a hurry
then I'm not the one to contact especially during the winter
and spring months when its the busiest at work.
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