Spectrum Imaging Newcastle Online Photo Printing & Document Services

Our operators individually preview and correct every image printed on our main lab.

We are happy to process film by Kodak, Fuji, Agfa, Ilford, Konica, and all brands.

Spectrum run 6 paper widths, 4",5",6",8", 8.25", & 24" & Photos can be printed along or across these widths.

Size choice depends on how you have taken the picture ..digital cameras take a slightly different shaped photo than film cameras, so you can either have a digital sized photo, or we can print onto a traditional paper size with a little cropping to your picture.

Digital photo sizes - We offer you the choice of full frame digital photos, or we can print your image onto traditional print sizes but with some edge cropping.

You cannot fit a square peg in a round hole .. this is the case for all digital images printed anywhere, - it's just that the nationals don't tell you about it, they just chop your images to keep their life simple !

Special event templates can be prepared as transparent photoshop files for overlays for special events. Please ask !

Hay, - Spectrum can print from just about anything: Print, Film, Digital, Tranny, Phone, etc.

Files should be in RGB saved as .jpg ( J-Pegs) which is standard so don't worry !

Download our home ordering software and order photos from home - collect at Spectrum or we can post them back to you with the same guaranteed quality.

Back-up your digital images

Remember that prints are the best way to guarantee that your images can be enjoyed today and by future generations.

We suggest you keep multiple copies of each image so that in the event of your camera card crashing, problems with your PC, - or unreadable CD's - you have alternative back-up copies.

In the event that you have 'lost' pictures either due to deletion or card/cd problems Spectrum\offer a 'no win no fee' data recovery service so please ask.

Remember that it is like a computer disc, and if it gets cluttered, it can start giving problems or failing.

It is good practice to multiple back-up your data frequently to CD, hard-drive, and as prints.

Periodically you should do a full card re-format. This will erase all the data on your card, and make it like new again so your camera should work better. Your camera instruction book will tell you how to do this.

If you don't know what Lomo is .... well it's a nuts alternative way of photographing your world. It began with a basic eastern blok camera, and created it's own set of imaging rules. These include deliberately bluring or double exposing your photos, maybe cross processing slide film to give crazy wacky prints.

Lomography is

P owerful - I ntense - C razy - T remendous - U nique - R aw - E xiting - S exy

PICTURES: That is what Lomography is all about. Nothing compares to the feeling of visually diving into a pool of shining, new, sweet-smelling lomographs. My pictures, your pictures, pictures of the world, pictures of fleeting moments, secret passions, boring brou-ha, left toes, blurred nothings. Simply everything.

Lomography collects, treasures and presents all of this.

www.lomographynewcastle.co.uk
www.lomography.com

HORIZON & X-Pan

Panorama scan &

Print Service.

Holga, Diana, etc

Mail order available.

Details here.

Download the Film Processing Mail Order Form Here

RULE #1
TAKE YOUR LOMO EVERWHERE YOU GO //
Excellent lomography cannot be planned, it must occur naturally. Be prepared! - and never leave your LOMO at home. Lomography is all around you, just waiting to be.. (click!) (click!) (click!).. captured! Go West my son! While you're at it - go North, East, and South too.
Your personal journey of Lomography knows no bounds or restrictions, and requires only your LOMO and a fresh supply of film
RULE #2
USE IT ANY TIME - DAY AND NIGHT //
Every second of your life has its own unique, profound, colourful mood. These opportunities for emotion, relation, and ecstasy do not regulate themselves according to weather or time - they come and go as they please! Your LOMO, as a relentlessly clicking record of your life and surroundings, must be up to the task of capturing these fleeting bits of time when they rear their heads. 24 hours a day, through rain, sleet, snow, or hail, your LOMO must be engaged and ready to go. The motif, the authenticity, and your life is always in the foreground of lomography - not the technique or the lighting conditions.
RULE #3
LOMOGRAPHY IS NOT AN INTERFERENCE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT A PART OF IT //
Lomography will become an obvious, natural, and communicative ritual in your life. It does not interrupt the direction of your life, it becomes an integral cog and dances perfectly in time with it. You talk and (click!) lomograph; you walk and (click!) lomograph, you think and (click!) lomograph, and you love and (click!) lomograph. Like breathing, singing, and eating, lomography becomes a powerful sign of your life energy, flowing from a breathless fingertip - through a sleek Russian lens - and out into the world around you.
RULE #4
SHOOT FROM THE HIP //
Your LOMO can never be more in the way then when it is in front of your face. It blocks your vision, upsets your expression, complicates your talking, and contorts your eyes into a squinting, monstrous nightmare. Luckily, the LOMO has no need for such restrictions. The wide-angle Minitar 1 lens, and the blazing fast manual focus allow your LOMO to freely shoot from all perspectives. Hand in the air, hand out in front, between the legs, directly above your head, at bug's-eye ground level - use all possible angles and perspectives to capture your subjects; as we said - there are no limits! Point your LOMO and (click!)
RULE #5
APROACH THE OBJECTS OF YOUR LOMOGRAPHIC DESIRE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE //
If you want to learn something detailed and intimate, you need to get close to it. You have to reduce the distance between you and your subject. Gain its trust. Build a relationship with it.
Take your LOMO on the offensive, and (click!) at precisely what interests you; laughing as you go so everyone can see that Lomography is the most natural and obvious thing in the world.
Warning: Disregard this rule in the case of rabid squirrels or large, surly motorcycle gang members.
RULE #6
DON'T THINK (William Firebrace) //
Lomography is the least intellectual pursuit that you can imagine. You cannot plan ahead - you can only react on instinct and feelings. Like a qualified buzz, Lomography liberates you from the conventions of thought and consideration - opening your senses and allowing you to act as a passionate moving extension of your LC-A. Put your head into an ice-cold bathtub, count to 100, and let your everyday troubles dissolve. Then, jerk your head out suddenly and hit the streets. Start (click!)ing away, have fun, and be open and responsive to surprise opportunities. This sixth rule is, by the way, the hardest one of all!
RULE #7
BE FAST //
A mere tenth of a second makes the difference between LOMO and Not-LOMO. See a motif and (click!), wait a few seconds and (click!) - something totally different! In lomography, first impressions count big time and have a quality all their own. You're cruising through the streets at night and wham! - a subject jumps out and (click!) you're capturing it, and (click!) (click!) it's changing before your very eyes, and (click!) (click!) - you've got it all in the can before anyone knows what's happening. Be quick, trust yourself, keep
moving, and have fun doing it. That's lomography!
RULE #8
YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW BEFOREHAND WHAT YOU'VE CAPTURED ON FILM //
Lomography is a way of living with random occurrence. The best lomographs are the result of the most diverse situations, of new ideas, new ways of seeing things, and new perspectives on life. (Click!) because it's fun. (Click!) because it arouses your curiosity. (Click!) because you cannot bear to live without it! Lomographic opportunities come and go as they please, yet they are always available when you care to look for them. With this outlook, the possibility of unexpected, vivid, lomographic explosions holds the sweetest reward for the seasoned lomographer. (Click!) with confidence, secure in the knowledge that each roll of film has the chance to hold incredible, beautiful surprises.
RULE #9
(YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW BEFOREHAND WHAT YOU'VE CAPTURED ON FILM)...or AFTER

You receive your developed Lomographs a few days later. Now, what on Earth could that be? Blurred, it appears to be a distended face, a peak of rock, a reflected light transforming into a vast grainy plain. The Lomographs tell your story, as it really was! But still, you often don't know where the individual pictures come from - Wow! That looks great, what was that?!?.
Your brain is running at top speed, your memory reconstructs events and fills them in with completely new feelings, impressions, and images. No, you don't have to know exactly what's on the film afterwards. Read between the Lomographs - read the shapes, the colors, the movement, the groove - your life!
RULE #10
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE RULES //
Discover your very own Lomography, immerse yourself in what's going on, do it, and do what you want! The 10 Golden rules are there to free your mind, to erase any formal predispositions towards "real" photography, and to allow your creativity to run wild and naked in the warm sunlight. "Central focus" - forget it; "Say Cheese" - no thanks!; "1/3 Sky, 2/3 Landscape" - retch! Or maybe not! Whatever you want, just try it, moving freely with your LOMO scanning about - relentlessly (click!)ing anything and everything in sight. Concentrate on the important things, forget the LOMO in your hand, and take lomographs until your fingers are bleeding.

Links:
www.lomographynewcastle.co.uk
www.lomography.com

There are endless possibilities with photos, - and Spectrum try to offer them all including:

PHOTO INVITATIONS - NEW
Photographs make fantastic quality invites for birthdays/engagement/parties etc - Brilliant if you want to include photos !
Sized 4x6 Glossy or Matt 100 only £15 1 day service
Artwork from £10 up (allow 1 more day )
or design yourself: 1200x1800pixelsRGB.jpg

Print@Fujifilm is a program you install on your PC -ideal for large orders, but doesn't work on MAC's, - nor if you are at work, libruary, etc. better for large orders.

Spectrum@nline is web based ordering. - for MAC or PC users, at work, libruary, cyber-cafe, etc. without installing software. better for smaller orders

print@FUJIFILM is a PC software application that lets you select and send your digital images via the Internet to us to be printed on REAL Fuji photographic paper from home.

It's easy and will save you money.

Mac users CLICK HERE

"We Promise Professional Quality at Reasonable Prices within 24hours" Phil Rigby - Owner.

Call us on 0191 261 5121 daytime if you need any help.

Take your digital pictures and transfer them to your PC
Install your software (photos@FUJIFILM) which can be downloaded here or you can get the free installation CD at Spectrum Imaging
Choose photos, t-shirts or gifts, calendars etc.
Select what size you want to print.
Select Matt or Glossy, Border or No Border etc
Crop your images if you like
Upload your images to us.
Choose to collect from Spectrum or we will post them back to you.
Pay securely on-line or when you collect@Spectrum
We will print your order & tell you by e-mail when done