In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
For about a year now, my mother can't get pictures developed decently.
This is a process that was perfected, worked great, cheap and available to everyone.
A little competition from digital, and suddenly no one even tries to do a good job at an affordable price of developing film photographs?
I'm not sure what the economic forces are at work here – except that with greater equality of wealth would come a greater emphasis on quality over being inexpensive.
I suppose there must be higher-end developing available, but Photo-Quick is closed and Ritz is just terrible customer service all-around.