Slides to CD to hand out a Christmas - help

"Michael Weinstein"
Probably means they were trained and certified by Kodak to mindlessly
run the minilab.
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Precisely! I used a CVS last week to make a couple of digital prints. It
was my first experience with prints other than from OFOTO. I was pleased
with the results.

I did not see any facility to scan negs. There was a Kodak self-service
flatbed scanner, apparently to scan prints.

I presume that the CVS (Kodak) minilab was set up to process 35mm and APS
film, and that the machine scanned the negs automatically as part of the
development process, but that function would have been automated--not
scanned by hand by the technician.

There appeared to be no way for a tech to video analyze the individual
images. Apparently the minilab was almost completely automatic. Actually
it might not have been a bad thing to keep the techs from being able to
botch up the final prints. All they do is replace the consumables, load the
film into the slot, and put the finished negs and prints into the customer's
envelope.