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VTalk Radio Photography Spotlight
Today's Guest: Timothy McCain of Photolynx in San Diego, California
Today's Host: John Bentley

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JOHN: Today we're in the studio with Timothy McCain of Photolynx of San Diego, California . Welcome, Tim, to VTalk Radio Photography Spotlight.

TIM: Thank you.

JOHN: Now you're out there in San Diego, and you're providing services for photographers. Tell us a little bit about your business.

T: Alright. Well we're San Diego based company. We're providing school photographers, sports photographers and event photographers; from collection to printing and everything in between including exporting to More Photos.

J: Now I see on your website there's a number of things going on. You have a lab locator. Tell us a little bit about that.

T: Yeah, we deal with all kinds of photography labs and on our website we have alliance members and lab members. We have Kodak, Fuji, Burrell and alot of the major labs in North America.

J: You also have a classified section on your website.

T: We do. That's brand new. We have a place where photographers can sell their wares and get together and ask for data help, or photography help.

J: And even jobs I see. Yeah. Now some of the products you offer, can you elaborate? Tell me a little bit about CamLynx.

T: CamLynx is a program you can take out to the school or event and match data and images on site. That's the big problem with school photography is knowing whose picture you took. So, it matches them up on site and then allows them to produce services right there on site such as ID cards or proof sheets.

J: So that makes it a lot easier for the photographer to get products out, then.

T: Correct. From the beginning you need to have you know the garbage in - garbage out. You need to have good data, put it in the camlink, match it up with the images, and send it on to the next level.

J: Now is that similar to the ImageMatach product?

T: No. ImageMatach is what Camlink feeds into which would do data correction, soft editing, and where you would look at the images and make sure everything was ok to go on to printing or producing services, or exporting to websites....

J: It's a professional version of being able to go onto your computer and dabble with this kind of stuff.

T: Correct. It's the in-studio kind of controlled environment. When we go out on sites, the CamLynx program has to be down and dirty and quick. ImageMatach you can bring it in, take your time, look at it, do what you have to do, and send it onto the printer.

J: Ok, now you have another product called Mr. Gray. How is that different from the ImageMatach?

T: Mr. Gray is the program we developed about a year ago that is for the photographer to correct their exposure before the exposure problem happens. So you shoot a gray card which is a known value of 128 red, green, and blue, and then it tells you in F Stops for lighting what to do to change that picture.

J: Tim tell us a little bit about the Procomposites page you have on there.

T: Proservices and School Image Software are niched pieces of software for the school industry only. They have the group photo which is a composite where we take all the individual pictures from ImageMatach into Procomposites and create a composite with title block and whatever they want on the image. Pro Services is kind of the pro-model of CamLynx. If you don't have to do your services on site, then you go back to the studio or the lab and create these services that the schools are needing like ID cards, mug books, proof sheets, labels that sort of thing. The school image software program we have is for the school itself and it comes free with ImageMatach for our photographers and they can pin that to the school with all the names and the images and they can take attendance with it, scheduling, print ID cards that are replacement ID cards and services like that.

J: Great. I also see you offer what's called a "RipLynx" too. Tell us about rip links.

T: Yeah. RipLynx is for the lab or a studio that has its own mini-lab. It gets the images into a package form like having 5 x 7s on a page, wallets on a page...so it just takes your image, color corrects it and outputs it to Fuji, Paxfa, Graytag - which is not around anymore - but there's all the main printers that are out there, we interface to.

J: Now, we're in the studio with Timothy McCain of Photolynx of San Diego, California. You are listening to VTalk Radio's Photography Spotlight. We're gonna be back after these important messages. Please stay tuned.

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JOHN: We are back in the studio today with Timothy McCain of Photolynx of San Diego, California, and you are listening to VTalk Radio's Photography's Spotlight. Tim, before we get any further, could you tell our listening audience your website and contact information?

T: The website is: www.photolynx.com. You can contact Photolynx at (760) 782-9000 or email us at: info@photolynx.com.

J: Now, we've been talking about the services that Photolynx offers to their clients. One of them I noticed on there was something called Pocket SIS.

T: Pocket SIS is a derivative of the School Image Software I was telling you earlier. School administrators now want to carry all this information on a palm pilot or pocket pc so they know if the student's in the right class, if they should be at the school, kinda of a security device. We output from school image software to their pocket pc. They can enter notes into that and sync back and forth throughout the day.

J: Now you offer tech support for all your clients. Tell us about that.

T: Correct. Tech support is our main focus. Software is software, our competition has some stuff that is better than us, but we have stuff that's better them when it comes to the actual software. What we have that no one else has is 12 hour support window Monday through Friday where you get a live person on the phone. Since we're dealing with schools' hardware and software, there is always going to be problems. That's how it goes. But we offer help when they call and that's free and included with the software packages we offer. That's our number focus here during the school season which is actually right now, we come in - everybody from me all the way down to the janitor is on the phone helping people out.

J: Well that's a great service to offer to your clients. I gotta ask you, how long has Photo Lynx been in business?

T: We started in 1988. We started with a flag ship piece of software called SIS and it was dos and it was for the optical world - the film base world. As photography went into the digital side of things, we morphed and kind of went with that and it's kind of fell into our hands cause we're doing the same things because you have to scan the film and then you had to mess with the images on the computer and on the film side we already had ImageMatach and with the digital photography in essence, it already was a digital image once it got to the computer. So we were able to just run with that and take a look at what our clients needed and what went with that.

J: Well, I want to thank you for joining us today, Tim. Can you give your website and contact information again for us?

T: Certainly, thank you. www.photolynx.com. You can call us at (760) 782-9000 or info@photolynx.com.

J: You've been listening to Timothy McCain of Photo Lynx of San Diego, California on VTalk Radio's Photographer's Spotlight. Thanks again for joining us today, Timothy.

T: Thank you.

J: Thank you audience for listening on VTalk Radio. Have a great afternoon.

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