From: Campos & Davis Photos (photos@campos-davis.co.uk)
Date: 02/18/00-04:28:28 PM Z
It definitely is a collectors item. They sell in fairs here these days
for quite a lot more than it cost to print them.
The new catalogue is on the way, I saw the proofs hanging up in the
Silverprint toilet the other day, the only place in the shop where you
can now pin things up its that crowded.
Campos & Davis Photos
6 Cranbourne Road
London N10 2BT - UK
Tel: + 44 181 883 8638
Fax: +44 208883 8638
email: photos@campos-davis.co.uk
www.campos-davis.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: 18 February 2000 20:19
Subject: Re: Supplier Silverprint problem (off topic)
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 FotoDave@aol.com wrote:
>
> > As for Silverprint, I have never dealt with them, but it sounds
like they are
> > small company simply overwhelmed by work, so try to understand
that. If they
> > have the products and price that you like, use them, but don't
expect
> > services like those big companies who have 20 lines just to handle
orders and
> > complains. The same person might be taking your order, preparing
them,
> > packing them, shipping them, etc.
>
> > I run a one-person consulting business. Sometimes people ask me
"you are the
> > president, the big boss, right?" "Yes, of course!" I always
answer, "but I
> > am also the secretary, the treasurer, the accountant, the
receptionist, the
> > phone operator, the programmer, the packaging director, the mail
sorter, and
> > the janitor."
>
> You're singing my song, Dave -- but you probably don't go ballistic
when
> you get letters addressed "Dear Sir". (And not just from England,
from the
> US, too!)
>
> However, that's not why I'm writing -- which is a word in defense of
> Silverprint. Or, as the English gentleman who sent me their catalog
some 4
> years ago put it, "Martin is really laid back." That is to say, as
far as
> I know this WONDERFUL catalog, showing a range of alt goodies from
all our
> weird chemicals to Buxton paper (sigh, sob), liquid emulsion, books,
and
> Kodak too, is still "being updated." Mine was out of date when I
got it,
> and soon out of print entirely. But just reading it made me want to
dash
> over to England. Perhaps the mind that can encompass that range &
make it
> work -- along with at least 2 great books that we know of -- has
e-mail
> somewhere in the *middle* of its crisis list.
>
> Meanwhile, if you're reading this, Martin: Any progress on that
catalog?
> Come to think of it, though, mine may be a collector's item by now.
Maybe
> I should offer it on e-bay.
>
> best,
>
> Judy
>
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>
>
> > >From what I read, Silverprint is 700 to 800% larger than my
company, but that
> > is not very large either. :-)
> >
> >
> > Dave Soemarko, Janitor
> > (A friend is visiting and staying over the weekend, so I have to
clean my
> > "office." I should get back to "work" and clean the bathroom now).
> >
> >
> >
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