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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 138334" data-attributes="member: 6277">I was in the One hour Photo finishing industry almost from the beginning. I was the manager of the second lab in the State of Alabama. In the beginning it cost around $250,000 to set up a proper lab. It also took a lot of training and daily work just to keep the machines in good working order and producing good prints. The reason I and a lot of other lab owners got out of the business was that the cost of the machines dropped to around $40,000 and you could train a monkey to run them. Everyone had them and most did a horrible job but it was cheap and people would get their prints from there. Digital photography has done the same thing to professional photographers. Anyone can spend $600 and get a decent camera that takes decent pictures. They then call themselves photographers and undercharge and take away business from the good photographers. The main problem is that a lot of these customers really don't know the difference since they have been getting bad photographs for years themselves (See previous paragraph) I think there will always be a place for the truly good photographer but it is going to continue to be more difficult for that photographer to earn a decent living as the years go by.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 138334, member: 6277"] I was in the One hour Photo finishing industry almost from the beginning. I was the manager of the second lab in the State of Alabama. In the beginning it cost around $250,000 to set up a proper lab. It also took a lot of training and daily work just to keep the machines in good working order and producing good prints. The reason I and a lot of other lab owners got out of the business was that the cost of the machines dropped to around $40,000 and you could train a monkey to run them. Everyone had them and most did a horrible job but it was cheap and people would get their prints from there. Digital photography has done the same thing to professional photographers. Anyone can spend $600 and get a decent camera that takes decent pictures. They then call themselves photographers and undercharge and take away business from the good photographers. The main problem is that a lot of these customers really don't know the difference since they have been getting bad photographs for years themselves (See previous paragraph) I think there will always be a place for the truly good photographer but it is going to continue to be more difficult for that photographer to earn a decent living as the years go by. [/QUOTE]

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