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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aarondhgraham" data-source="post: 4346148" data-attributes="member: 13337">Actually, Lifetouch, the company who bought out Olan Mills,,,Tried to get into the very early stages of digital imagery.They converted several of the Olan Mills studios to digital,,,A family went in for the shoot and immediately got proofs to view and order from.I had left the company long before that but I talked to one of their last photographers,,,The digital prints were still very low quality compared to silver prints,,,The consumers didn't like them and they went under.After I left Olan Mills I started working for a company out of San Francisco,,,Expressly Portraits was their name and they set up in malls.Each store had three studios and a darkroom in the back room,,,We shot the sitting and immediately developed the film,,,Then instead of "proofs" we printed a full package.In one hour we had 8x10's, 5x7's, and Wallet sized prints ready to take home,,,They eventually went digital (long after I quit) but didn't last long either,,,They didn't pay well enough for skilled photographers to stay,,,They hired young kids and tried to train them in house.It didn't work.Aarond.</blockquote>