Subj : Fountain Pens & Notebooks
To : OGG
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Fri Mar 26 2021 09:50 am
-=> OGG wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-
JA> Remember sending film off to be developed? It was cool when
JA> you FINALLY got the prints in the mail. :-)
OG> I most certainly *do*. We eventually found a service that
OG> offered triple copies of photos including two mini "stamp" size
OG> versions on the same photo for a really low price. All you had
OG> to do was cut off the minis and you could use those to share as
OG> momentos too. It was exciting to receive those packages in the
OG> mail.
Agreed. :-) I had a Kodak DISC as my first 'my camera' camera.
Those were just cool - LOL
OG> After a while though, the quality of prints from that service
OG> waned. Sometimes the sets arrived with what looked looked like
OG> a sepia washover.
We would wait until Clark Photo had a 'coupon' mailer thingy in the
Sunday paper and send it off. :-)
OG> I still have roll of film in a camera that my mom last used over
OG> 10 years ago. I am not sure if there is any place locally that
OG> would attempt to develop that. But it might be worth mailing it
OG> out somewhere an hopefully some human attendant at the machine
OG> can make suitable adjustments if the prints don't look quite
OG> right.
mpix.com - I contacted them last year about some 35mm film... See, I
have my old 35mm camera my wife (girlfriend at the time) gave me
for Christmas the year I graduated. It is a Pentax K1000 and was VERY
very similar to the one I used in photojournalism. Well, I was in a play
fall of 2019 at the local Community College and we needed a camera with
a flash that worked for a prop, so I took mine. I then decided to get
some film, but looked online before I did, to make sure I could get
it processed. Found them and seemed like a good company...
