[filmscanners] Re: OT: Film processing costs (WAS: Re:Prints fromscans ...are there reallydifferences any more?)

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> Roger writes:
>
>
>>Ya, I understood later, moreover seeing that
>>he was talking about Paris -probably the most
>>expensive city in the known universe :-))
>>
>
> Actually, Paris is not that high on the list.  Major American cities, Tokyo,
> and London (as well as possibly Zurich) are more expensive.  This is true
> even with respect to average income, although French incomes are distributed
> in a very non-American way, with highly-paid management making far more than
> regular employees as compared with the same ratios in the U.S. (i.e., the
> lowest people on the French totem pole are paid dirt, and the highest people
> are paid like royals).
>


Are you sure about this?  In the US a CEO makes 450 times that of the
average worker in the same company (it was 45 times 10 years ago)...

As I understand it, the US has the greatest disparity of any
"democratic" country (I'm not speaking of Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, etc.)
in terms of salaries.

Art


> But getting back to photography ...
>
>
>>I really didn't know about that, not being
>>involved yet in stock agency photography ...
>>
>
> I've heard that some agencies won't even sell certain stock photos to
> customers in France, simply because the jurisprudence in France is so
> unfavorable to photographers, agencies, and publishers.
>
>
>


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