Re: [photo-3d] Re: delivery confirmation

[Mike Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Vint wrote:
> 
> George indicated he was shipping his best slides as part of various portfolios.
> I cringed at the idea of trusting my work to make it through multiple
> shippings and handlings by any shipper (Post office, UPS, Fed ex). Your image
> is not replaceable! Now maybe this is because of the difficult in dealing with
> Realist and other formats, but I would certainly try and get good quality
> dups of the slides to send, or to a digital to film process.

Do people send duplicates to folios/contests/exhibitions ?  What about folk
who send their prize Kodachrome photos by mail to be processed by A&I 
(or Qualux, etc)? 

I don't think I've ever lost anything in the mail, the U.S. Mail has
been very very good.  Once in a blue moon, a package will go into the
twilight zone and take forever (like a 1.5 week trip from Seattle down to
me in metro Portland, a several hour driving distance), but it still gets
here eventually.

 
> Accidents happen and as I said, that image is not replacable!

True, but what would happen if it were lost?  Death?  Probably
not.  A stock photo company would lose money if they lost an 
original.  Those of us who are amateurs just will be forced to
go out and take more photos to come up with more jewels, plus
we'll have a story about the "one that got away".  The lost
photos can get better and better over the years without anyone
being able to dispute that "fact" (other than one's spouse rolling
eyes and muttering "again!.....").

Mike K.


> 
> ..dan