Online Photo Processing

[GT98]

I'm looking to get some hard copies of my Digital photos and I was wondering who offers the best deal for reproducing photos.

[Gurm]

Well, I dunno about best deal, but OPhoto produces top-notch quality prints, and it's cheap enough for Julie's tastes.

- Gurm

[az]

One thing to look for is aspect ratio. Classic film has 3:2, I think, while digital photos have 4:3. This means that every shop with only the classic photo sizes (here it's 9x13, 10x15, 13x18 cm) will either cut a little off your photos' short sides, or leave white borders, making the print effectively smaller than advertised (like watching 4:3 TV on a 16:9 screen). Good services thus have "digital" paper sizes.

Fuji produces nice results, I've heard. Dunno about their price or format, though.

AZ

[Gurm]

OPhoto = Kodak.

'Nuff said.

I have spoken.

- Gurm

[Ozbreeze]

do you know if the prices for prints from digital images is comparable to doing 35 mm prints?

[Gurm]

Absolutely.

The average cost for overnight photo development is about $12 (more nowadays, but bear with me) for a roll of 24.

OPhoto is, with 2-day shipping, 40 cents a pop.

Do the math. It's comparable, and if you get slower shipping or cheaper prints... you're golden. Plus it works out cheaper, because you get 100% good prints from OPhoto, whereas the photo mat doesn't guarantee that. Also, every time I get a roll developed, it always ends up being more than I expected anyway... closer to $20 sometimes.

I have spoken.

- Gurm

[Evildead666]

Fuji has the best quality developement in the world.
They have the best machines too : Frontier.

We are currently better than anyone on quality.
Just make sure you keep copies of the files until the photos arrive tho.

For sizes: They will slightly cut the sides or top off, slightly as in evenly all round. The machines do this automatically, and the result isn't bad at all. About 1mm or 2mm max is taken from each side when doing a digital developement of the Digital photo.

BTW, all photos are now scanned digitally, even the negatives, and are developped on the Frontier machines. These machines are really the best in the world.
AGFA and Kodak are catching up tho, especially AGFA.

Do a test, send one photo to be developped at each, the same photo. see what happens. Try to pick a photo with a lot of colours (different colours, reds, greens and blues etc...), that really stresses the colour balance on the machines.

What digi camera do you have, if its not a secret?
(I use a Finepix 4900Z, expensive, but some gorgeous photos)
Yes, i work for FUJI Labs (France). I only manage 2 services, in the Digital division, nothing to do with the developement process tho. I work directly with the clients (retailers), and their Digital machines (computers).

[az]

Be sure there is no additional compression when uploading the images. Some labs use frontier minilabs, but this'll do you no good when you have jpg artifacts in all your pics.

BTW, I have a Minolta Dimage 7i *brag*

AZ

[Ozbreeze]

thanks Gurm

[az]

Whoa, photo processing is expensive in the states if what gurm says is true..

AZ

[Gurm]

Well I dunno what options she gets. *shrug*

I HAVE SPOKEN.

- Gurm

[Ozbreeze]

i just had some photos processed last week.....36 exposure kodak paid about $4 for the film and $5.50 for 2 day developing at wal-mart.....so roughly $10 total for 4x6 prints