I'll say it's a rip off. Many photo labs started doing this service and many jumped on the bandwagon thinking its a lucrative business as many would want to preserve memories but those with many to convert would rather buy the machine or use other means which is a more economical way.
Unless you are just doing a few prints or conversions, then it's more worthwhile using their service rather than buy one and become a white elephant.
Now many good printers can print good quality photos and in this digital age, people just send the soft copy to each other unless you want those being printed.
But I guess some or many will still do it as it's quite time consuming to do the conversions.
I have all my photos in my external HDD (digital ones). Those that are prints have already been scanned but it's stuck in my crashed iMac
Maybe I'll rescan them if I'm up to it. The rest I won't bother because it's been lying around for centuries in albums and I never taken a glimpse of them so I guess those photos are the ones I don't miss.
and the orange butterflies were probably glad he was on the other side of the glass from then on!
(Maybe he wanted to make sure he was top cat. The Monarch.
with a very tattered cloth hanging between it and the rest of the world. The equally inviting and exposed shower was right next door -- cold water only, which you were glad for as it was actually tepid and the climate was equatorial. And one theatre my friend and I, and our moms, used to go to had red flocked wallpaper. That was pretty vintage fancy if you ask me.
