Do you have a Walgreens in your town?

[Skinny McGee]

Hello everyone,

If you do have a Walgreens store in your town, and your into color film. Walgreens film is made by Agfa. I just left my Walgreens and they have their film marked down to $4.99 for 4 rolls of 24 400 speed. I have shot this film before and it is pretty nice film... I think I will be stocking up on this before they pull the rug out from underneth it.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Mercifully not -- but then, I live in rural France.

Cheers,

Roger

 

[wlewisiii]

If you have their sale catalog, there is a coupon for an additional dollar off. At $3.99 for 4 24 shot rolls it's not too bad.

William

 

[einolu]

I bought some CVS brand film and was surprised by the results, it seemed to be more contrasty than kodak gold, wonder who actually made it. Got a good deal too, 4 rolls for $4, heh.

 

[RayPA]

Hello everyone,

If you do have a Walgreens store in your town, and your into color film. Walgreens film is made by Agfa. I just left my Walgreens and they have their film marked down to $4.99 for 4 rolls of 24 400 speed. I have shot this film before and it is pretty nice film... I think I will be stocking up on this before they pull the rug out from underneth it.

One of my local Walgreens has/had a sale on the 3-pack 36 exp. of the Kodak Professional 400UC—something like half off. There were lots of film sale tags up, ektachrome, etc. I think I saw the sale you are referring to, as well. I didn't know that Agfa made their film though...hmmm. I may have to revisit. 😉

 

[peter_n]

Isn't it Remy here who shoots exclusively with drug-store film? Hema I think its called. His pictures look pretty good to me!

 

[dmr]

Sore subject! 🙁 Send it back to Walgreens with no return address! 🙁

I had some NASTY results with a roll of Walgreens 800 film recently. I was out shooting some night scenes on the Las Vegas Strip and ran out of (Fuji 800) film. I stopped in to Walgreens, the one just north of the MGM. They had Fuji 800 at $8 and change, and Walgreens brand 800 at $3 and change. Guess which one I took. 🙁 Bad choice! 🙁

It was night and day. I might have blamed the processing if I didn't have the two done at the same time, sequential roll numbers, at Wally World. (Yeah, yeah, I know ...) I might have blamed my technique except for the fact that the first ones (Fuji) were great and the later ones were gross.

Here's the page that includes that shoot.:

http://www.letis.com/dmr/pics/vegas/vegas4/

Compare, say, the shots of the Boardwalk, which I know were Fuji, to those of the Bellagio, which were Walgreens. Too contrasty, grainy, and poor solids. I might blame the poor black solids on scanning noise, but the Fuji ones were clean.

Yeah I know, bitch-bitch-bitch! <semi-grin>

 

[phototone]

Well, my wife works part-time at Wallgreens, but I shoot b/w. No Neopan at Wallgrits.

 

[Little Prince]

This reminds me I've seen rolls of film (including positives) lying around in the bargain bin at Wolf. I've noticed E100SW among a few others. No idea how outdated they are, but priced at $2.5 a roll. Usually, I don't buy from Wolf, but is this a good idea?

 

[phototone]

This reminds me I've seen rolls of film (including positives) lying around in the bargain bin at Wolf. I've noticed E100SW among a few others. No idea how outdated they are, but priced at $2.5 a roll. Usually, I don't buy from Wolf, but is this a good idea?

I have had nice results from slide flm that was a year or two out of date. I process myself, and in scanning I can adjust the color, if it is a bit off.

 

[kiev4a]

I haven't bought any Wallgreen brand film but the local store's processing beats the hell out of Wallmart. I seldom get print. They charge something like $2.25 to develop, cut and sleeve color neg fim (1 hr processing). At that price there's no reason to even consider getting a c-41 kit.
On prints, Wallgreen is definately geared toward Fuji film locally. Prints from Fuji seem to come out right on the money. Kodak film is more iffy.

 

[hjfischer]

You might also check Wally World for Fuji Superia 24, ASA 400. In Austin it's 5 rolls for $6.86, a pretty good deal if you shoot Fuji as I do.

 

[dmr]

Wally World

Wally World

You might also check Wally World for Fuji Superia 24, ASA 400. In Austin it's 5 rolls for $6.86, a pretty good deal if you shoot Fuji as I do.

Wally World does have good prices on film, and yes, I do buy a lot of Fuji there. I gave up on my plan to stock up on that el-cheapo Polaroid rebrand Agfa stuff after my disasterous results with Walgreen rebranded film. 🙁

They also seem to do a usually-consistent job of developing and scanning to CD (it took a while to train them to do DO-CD), but I'm realizing that they really don't scan to the resolution I need.

I do have some issues with the way Wally World does business, but that's off topic here. It's just one factor of many when deciding who to patronize, I guess. ... Oh well ...

 

[CleverName]

I do have some issues with the way Wally World does business, but that's off topic here. It's just one factor of many when deciding who to patronize, I guess. ... Oh well ...

I also have issues with Wally World and will only shop there in emergency situations.

(back on topic, sort of...)

For color film I shoot the cheapest film I can find. I try to get it at about a dollar a roll. The guy at the Moto-Photo always tells me when he tosses some out-of-date film into the $1.00 basket (I have to dig through a lot of APS film). If it's a special occasion, or a friend has asked me to take photos, I'll get some good stuff, but I generally use cheap color film as proofs or test shots of things I intend to shoot in B&W.

 

[doubs43]

These three shots were taken on Walgreen's Brand Agfa 200 film.

Walker

 

[mtokue]

OK, This might be slightly OT but as for someone who has visited the States
but still in the dark is:
Walgrens........equivalent to a 7-11 or a chemists?
Wally World......I thought that this was a theme park like Disneyland...NO?
Sorry for the ignorance, but it would knina help me to follow the threads...
Best
Mike.

 

[wlewisiii]

Walgreens is a combo chemists and 7/11. Better than most, but not perfect. Thier cheap Agfa rebrand is usable and thier Fuji machines are better than average in the one hour dev. biz.

Wally World is Walmart. A good way to describe them is that while capitalism may be good for the world, there are many times where an armed guard is needed to ensure it behaves... :bang:

I'll buy at Walgreens. There is no emergency great enough that I'll give Walmart one penny.

 

[vsolanoy]

I usually by the Polaroid stuff from Walmart because it's the cheapest stuff I can find that I don't have to think twice about burning through. And I LOVE Walgreens!!! I love the fact that I can walk in, say I want the film developed with a contact sheet, and I spend no more than the cost of film (depending on what I shoot). Their Fuji Frontier is great, particularly when there's someone behind the controls that actually cares, which is most of them (at least in my neighborhood).

However, NEVER, EVER send film out from them. Their contracted labs are horrible in my experience...

Walmart has the new Fuji True Definition for about $7 for 3 roles from what I remember. I'm going to try this stuff out this weekend -- going to LA and Joshua Tree National Monument...

 

[phototone]

OK, This might be slightly OT but as for someone who has visited the States
but still in the dark is:
Walgrens........equivalent to a 7-11 or a chemists?
Wally World......I thought that this was a theme park like Disneyland...NO?
Sorry for the ignorance, but it would knina help me to follow the threads...
Best
Mike.

Walgreens is a Chemists that has a variety store and limited food items and a 1 hour photo developing department. Many are open 24 hours.

Wally World is a humorous nickname for WalMart which is huge big box type retailer that has everything under one roof, usually at discount prices. You can get everything from food to spark plugs, furniture, cameras, and one hour type film processing and printing, clothes, gardening supplies, jewelry, auto tyres, arts and craft supplies, eyeglasses, pharmeceuticals, pet supplies, limited appliances, televisions, hunting and fishing supplies, hardware, paint, shoes, greeting cards, office supplies, plumbing and electrical supplies, and gosh knows what else. Most WalMarts are open 24 hours 7 days a week. In my area, they stock T-max 400 b/w film in 24 exposure rolls. In the United States their main competetion is a chain of similar stores called K-Mart. WalMart usually has the better stocked stores, at least in my area.

 

[RayPA]

Walgreens is a Chemists that has a variety store and limited food items and a 1 hour photo developing department. Many are open 24 hours.

Wally World is a humorous nickname for WalMart which is huge big box type retailer that has everything under one roof, usually at discount prices. You can get everything from food to spark plugs, furniture, cameras, and one hour type film processing and printing, clothes, gardening supplies, jewelry, auto tyres, arts and craft supplies, eyeglasses, pharmeceuticals, pet supplies, limited appliances, televisions, hunting and fishing supplies, hardware, paint, shoes, greeting cards, office supplies, plumbing and electrical supplies, and gosh knows what else. Most WalMarts are open 24 hours 7 days a week. In my area, they stock T-max 400 b/w film in 24 exposure rolls. In the United States their main competetion is a chain of similar stores called K-Mart. WalMart usually has the better stocked stores, at least in my area.

some Walmarts can be seen from outer-space... 😉