[GH85Carrera]

Yea, digital photography has forced me out of all three of my jobs since 1978 because of market changes. There are no professional photo labs anymore. Film is only great for LONG term storage of an image.

Back in the olden days the truism "film is cheap" was mostly a reminder, shoot lots of film, and cull out the bad shots. If you did not take the photo, it was missed forever. At press events I always carried two cameras with me. 36 exposures was luxury, 12 or 24 was typical with a Hasselblad.

Now we can shot 20,000 exposures on a project and not even think much about it.

Back in the days of working at Pro Photo I ran the film processors. There are control strips that Kodak provides, and we measure them and plot the differences in the chemistry. Kodak had a designation of "Pro Lab" if the lab could keep the plots very tight, and once per week send special strip Kodak sold us, back to Kodak. They would read it and plot it and verify our chemistries were within tolerance. A professional photographer on the road could use us and know his slides would come out processed properly and not be blue or green or too dark or light.

Time magazine had a photographer that would swing by and drop off 40 to 50 roll of film. I would process them and he would use our light table and sort through them. He would discard (trash) 99% of the shots. He would Fed-X them in the olden days and later he would have me scan them to send via FTP to Time magazine.