Precision Camera finally confirmed my camera arrived, and it's now in "repair status." Please don't send me any more nightmare stories about Precision Camera. It's not helping.
So now I'm ameliorating some of my photography withdrawal symptoms with a bit of photo printing. Typically I just edit photos and burn them to disk for clients. I have very little of my own work on display around the house. I do have two boxes of old frames I haven't unpacked since we moved five years ago.
Coincidentally, I ordered self-adhesive backing boards a few weeks ago, so now's my chance to put my hands on some prints. Backing boards provide a nice firm surface on which to affix images. This prevents them from curling or sliding around inside of picture frames. An old camera hand taught me how to apply the prints one day years ago when I looked over his shoulder while pretending to browse lens filters.
I use Walgreen's for printing because I can upload full resolution photos and securely share them for free. The prints I have to pay for, but the price is reasonable. Though Walgreen's claims they don't adjust the photographs if you click the little radio button for that option, they do anyway. And no, it's not my monitor. My monitor is calibrated by hand for photography, and the only pictures that turn out badly are exactly the photos you'd expect to turn out badly if the printer automatically adjusted the images.
So I picked out some pictures Walgreen's couldn't possibly screw up, and ordered 8x10 prints. They only took an hour, and they turned out well. I mounted them on backing board and affixed strip magnets to the back so The Missus could take them to work on Monday. For now, they're stuck to the 'fridge like so much kindergarten artwork.
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