[filmscanners] Re: Prints from scans ... are there reallydifferences any more?

["Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>]

Brian writes:

> Are the prices you quote the going rates in Paris?

They appear to be.  Even an ordinary consumer lab with overnight service
wants $3 for a roll of 135 in C-41.

> Even the most expensive labs in NYC will develop
> and contact a 120 C41 roll for far less.

There is less competition in Paris, and Europeans enjoy paying too much for
everything.

> I do quite a few stock photo sales in France
> and notice that prices aren't that high. How
> does anybody stay in business?

Well ... come to think of it, how many stock photographers _are_ there in
France?  Just the legislation in France alone is enough to kill off stock
photography (draconian jurisprudence on image rights, over-regulation of
small businesses), and there are many other obstacles besides just the price
of film processing.

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