[BUGS] making photos

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 16/02/2008, at 5:10 PM, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote:

> Hi JLM, et.al.,
>
> busy busy busy, and so only just now starting to 'catch up'.
>
> Jonathan, regarding the move to digital photography... there are
> alternatives. If you have a pretty good 'analogue' setup (and it  
> sounds
> like you do) an alternative is to have your films processed and
> converted to digital images at the time of processing. In the past we
> have done this (before we went digital), and it was pretty successful.
>
> The mob we used is in Queensland (http://www.extrafilm.com.au/). Their
> prices were (I thought) pretty reasonable. Just checking the site now,
> 35mm processing only (no prints) and CD with the piccies on it is  
> $13.90
> per roll + $2.75 per roll postage/handling - so really, each roll to  
> be
> processed to CD is about $16.75.


I'm interested in, what do you do with the digital images when you  
want prints of them? I'v experimented with various ink jets and gloss  
paper, the quality can be fairly good, but the image seems to fade  
really quickly.. Like the ink is very light reactive or something?