I may not devote an entire month to this topic, but there are few things I will miss about the city that aggravated me more than inspired me over the course of a year. My hobbies include photography, and one of my favorite weekly activities in Mexico included traveling down Reforma on a pesero, getting off near Avenida Juarez and walking to Foto Regis to print 11X14 copies of my favorite photographs.
Foto Regis isn’t the best place I’ve ever been to for prints. (I grew up in LA where A&I reigns supreme.) But if you’re astute to color-correcting your own photographs, maximizing their potential, and you’re a good shot, then make no mistake that the 36 pesos ($2.70) you’ll spend per digital 11X14 print will be the best bargain you come across. Consistent with most restaurants, shops, shoe-cleaning dudes, Foto Regis‘ employees are in uniform, professional and willing to help you thoroughly. Unfortunately, they don’t always know what the hell you’re talking about when it comes to developing 120 film. But you can’t have it all, right? Also, their website leaves much to be desired. Why can’t I upload from my home and then just pick them up? Why don’t all of their locations offer the same prices and products?
Although it’s the premiere site for photo equipment, they don’t carry much outside of studio gear and cameras. If you’re looking for portfolios, negative preservers, cheap Holgas, mounts, frames or binders, (a la Freestyle Photography or B & H Photography then you’re SOL. But make no mistake; this is the place to order cheap plastic frames and prints. For a struggling blogger, it was always comforting to know I could plaster my apartment with my own work for a relatively minor dent in my wallet.
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