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Attention Film Shooters! by Arnie Burton

The film era has been truly magnificent.  Up until just a couple of years ago, we watched thousands of rolls of film come in each day.  Our film printers and their skilled operators have produced hundreds of thousands of large wall portraits that are still treasured by their owners.  And, who knows how many competition prints have been awarded merits over the years that were printed right here? 

While technology has marched on since those days, we have and will continue to offer film services at Miller’s, following in the traditions that helped us start and grow our business over the last forty years.  However, to adjust to the changing market, we will be making a couple of modifications to how we handle film, effective January 1, 2010. 

Just what exactly will be changing?  We will continue to print optically for orders 11x14 and smaller, as we’ve always done.  However, print orders larger than 11x14 will be scanned and printed on our digital printers.  Because we are printing these digitally, requests for negative retouching will automatically be sent to digital retouching. 

What exactly will this mean to you?  You probably will not notice any change at all!  In fact, if you are used to traditional retouching, you may be happier with the flexibility digital retouching can offer.  And, we are confident that you will be just as thrilled with the quality of your large digital prints.  We genuinely believe they are the best the industry has to offer!

Comments

 

Nancy Scott said:

Whew.....for a moment I thought you were going to discontinue processing and printing film....which I really love so much better than digital......maybe because I am a "dinosaur" & just can't get what I want from digital without spending hours on the computer, I keep going back to film.  Thank you so much for still doing film!!!!!  And yes...YOU ARE THE BEST IN THE INDUSTRY.

September 29, 2009 9:58 AM
 

Charles Graham said:

How and what will the neg's be scaned at?

September 29, 2009 10:11 AM
 

David Carroll said:

We started using Miller's to scan and print our film based images for seniors a few years ago, and  "Hybrid" has saved us retouching and especially print finishing costs. We have since switched most of our film images to this hybrid method with great results. It is a great way to go!

September 29, 2009 2:17 PM
 

Tom Porter said:

do you offer a spot somewhere that pros can sell there equipment...I have 2 Bronica SQA's with prisms and couple of lenses and also several nikon 35's i.e. fm2, fe etc

September 29, 2009 9:13 PM
 

Julie Brown said:

Hi guys,

Thanks for all of the comments.  

Charles, The negs are scanned on our Fuji negative scanner at 300ppi.

Tom, no, unfortunately we don't have a place where pros can sell their equipment.

Julie

October 5, 2009 10:22 AM
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