By Linda Cline (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 8:22 pm: |
Hi, we're trying to put together a last minute trip to Bonaire. Heard lots of good things about Buddy Dive and want to try them. We'd like a two bedroom unit; does Buddy have those? Also, if we stay at Buddy, where is the best/most convenient place to get slide film developed?
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By Freddie Hughes (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3831) on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 9:08 pm: |
Hi Linda, I can't really answer your questions about Buddy Dive but,I just wanted to tell you that your SPUD pictures were fantastic!! Thank you for sharing them..
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By Linda Cline (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 9:27 pm: |
Hi Freddie, Boy, it's a small world! Glad you liked the pictures. I've got a couple more batches I want to send to Dave Read, but I'm going to wait. I don't want to dominate the queue!
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By herman mowery (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #176) on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:40 pm: |
Buddy does have 2 br units. We have "reserved" a 2 br the last couple of years but 2 of 3 years we actually had a 3 br at the 2 br cost, not complaining mine you. Lions Dive next door has 2 brs and Sand Dollar on the other side has 2 brs as well. All 3 are nice places.
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By Linda Stoltzfus (BonaireTalker - Post #88) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 12:56 am: |
Linda,
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By mary pequinot (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #297) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 9:38 am: |
Buddy's may develop slides, not sure. They do service cameras there.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1383) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 10:32 am: |
There are 2 places within walking distance of Buddy Dive that I know of - Fish Eye Photo at Sand Dollar and Exposures at Captain Don's Habitat. Both do E6 processing for slides.
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By Cecil Berry (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2415) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 11:03 am: |
Linda C., you can dominate the queue anytime you want. They were some great pictures.
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By Marc @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #947) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 11:20 am: |
Linda, I advise you to take your film home with you to process. The prices for developing slides here are simply outragous (and are prompting me to make a switch to digital soon, hopefully), plus the outcome is always a big suprise... often a negative one.
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By Renea (BonaireTalker - Post #38) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 12:46 pm: |
Paradise Photo downtown develops both film and slides. They have a 1 hour service. Buddy's doesn't develop any type of film. I think Captain Don's uses Paradise.....you can drop it off and they take it to Paradise(don't know if I am 100 % accurate on this).
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1380) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 1:21 pm: |
Best to ask any of the on-property dive ops if they develop film there or take it to town. I believe most use off-site developers. Not economical for each to do their own. As Marc says, the cost is higher than home.
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By Linda Cline (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #3) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 1:41 pm: |
Hi dive_cecil! Glad you enjoyed the photos. I'll put more in soon.
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By Linda Cline (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #4) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 1:48 pm: |
Thanks for all the advice, everyone! Appreciate the pointers to Fish Eye and Exposures, and the two places in town. I'm not concerned so much with cost (I'm used to liveaboard rates) as with quality. Would like to hear more about specific problems. Color cast, debris, mixed up C41/E6 or what? I've used the processing at the old Sand Dollar photo shop (before Lenny) and had no problems, but that was a while ago.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1384) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 2:26 pm: |
Habitat develops their own.
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By Marc @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #950) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 2:27 pm: |
Well, I've seen pictures come back with a definite green cast over them. I talk to one professional (wedding) photograper who told me he had had several films messed up, as in destroyed completely. My guess is the minilabs that are being used here just don't get serviced as much as they ought to.
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #4158) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 2:42 pm: |
Marc,
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By Freddie Hughes (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3843) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 3:08 pm: |
Linda here is a picture of a slide that was taken in Sept and developed at Habitat..Unfortunately I cannot take credit for this shot..
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By Freddie Hughes (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3844) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 3:11 pm: |
Email me if you want the unsized version so you can look more closely at the quality..
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By Marc @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #954) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 5:39 pm: |
Jake, this photographer (don't know his name) said it didn't matter where he took them, he'd had trouble with all of them. Of course, this is hearsay
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By Freddie Hughes (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3845) on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 5:45 pm: |
Marc, maybe his film had been exposed to too many xrays..they say it gets cloudy when that happens
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