Comments on: Online Photo Developers Comparison

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:45:25 +0000

Hey.. so I heard that Winkflash prints with yellow skin tones.. Is that true?
I want to try em out, they have 50 free prints right now..

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:21:08 +0000

I realize this thread has been inactive for a while, but I wanted to mention that I tried out WinkFlash when I bought a spindle of 50 DVD-Rs the other day. There was a coupon for 100 free 4×6″ prints, after $.99 shipping. I figure it couldn’t hurt. The pictures weren’t bad, especially for $.01 each (or so). Target was much much more expensive.

By: Personal Finance Blog

Personal Finance Blog — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:54:18 +0000

I tried Snapfish before … I now use clubphoto.com. The print quality is good and price is reasonable ($0.19 for 3×5, 4×6 or 4xD).

By: nickel

nickel — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:06:58 +0000

I've had good experience with WinkFlash. There used to be some coupon codes floating around for 50 free prints with a new account, or some such. I created about four new accounts and went to town. Print quality was good - pretty much equivalent to SnapFish. fivecentnickel.com

By: sean

sean — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:33:20 +0000

Oh, understood ya’ entirely when I thought for all of a quarter second, and the ‘rolls free’ column on the table really gave it away. Just didn’t initially even consider that there were still people out there messing with film..

I’d take so few pictures if I had to deal with processing film that the camera would be a waste. With my digital (using a Canon A95 now), I probably take five rolls worth a week. Oh, sure, half are terrible shots, but it doesn’t matter – there’s no incremental cost in taking 5 pics or 500, so I take lots of pics!

OK, enough going entirely off tangent from your post.

I’m an Ofoto KodakGallery user right now, and have been entirely happy with the quality (and the cost isn’t too bad once it gets reduced by using a discount code or two ala the 25% off SUMMERPRINT code valid now). Used to occassionally use Snapfish as well, but forgot why I stopped using them – might have to try them out again some time. Tried out Walmart a couple times – each time the initial prints ended up way off (odd cropping one time, atrocious color another). Winkflash is a new one to me – definitely will have to give ‘em a trial run (wow, $1.99 for 11×17 posters?!).

By: jim

jim — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:07:44 +0000

I clarified that line in the post, thanks sean. Sometimes I don’t know how people are going to interpret things…

In the world of non-digital photography, the developer takes liberties in how long to expose the film in printing (affects brightness I think), which isn’t something that typically happens with digital images. Sometimes they make it too bright or too dark, so you can look and just discard that print or ask it be reprinted but brighter/darker. (my friend worked at a FotoHut) That’s sort of what I meant when I said “you can’t look at them before you pay” since the prints are all shipped to you at once before review.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:03:03 +0000

…because you don’t get the opportunity to look at your prints before you pay for them.

Had me confused there for a sec – I thought ‘Why would you send all your shots in – just send in the good ones!’, and then realized you were talking about film cameras. I haven’t bought a roll of film for several years, and can’t imagine ever doing it again. Might grab a few rolls if I ever got the bug to learn to use my wife’s old SLR, but hell, it’d probably be cheaper in no time to go get a Nikon D70 or Canon Rebel and forego the film/developing/’crap, everything is out of focus’ part of the learning process…

By: jim

jim — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:57:18 +0000

I hadn’t tried Winkflash but the border and, especially, the custom message are nice perks.

By: J

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:53:33 +0000

I have tried quite a few different services and found WinkFlash to be the best. The print quality is great and they offer several extras like: choice of a white boarder, custom message printing on the back of the prints (different message for each print, if you want) and a choice of either glossy or matt. I’m sure others have had different experiences, but I couldn’t be more pleased with WinkFlash. And they are fast – I uploaded about 90 pictures one evening at about 10:00PM and when I checked my email the next morning, there was a message indicating they had already shipped – and I got them in 2 days.

By: FMF

FMF — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:55:59 +0000

Great post! I’m in the market for a new digital camera and developing isn’t far behind. Very timely indeed!