Film developing kits and Switzerland

[nongfuspring]

I was wondering if anyone around has an idea of the prices for developing 35mm film in Switzerland since I'll be moving there soon. I hope someone will contradict me here, but I was told its very expensive (32 USD just for one roll!!!!), in which case I'd be better off doing it myself. Seriously, if its that expensive I'll start up my own underground developing racket and charge 31 USD a roll 🙄

In the case of having to do it myself, does anyone recommend any compact C41 developing kits for film? I normally scan everything I do and rarely need to print anything.

Thanks!!

 

[joeswe]

I was wondering if anyone around has an idea of the prices for developing 35mm film in Switzerland since I'll be moving there soon. I hope someone will contradict me here, but I was told its very expensive (32 USD just for one roll!!!!), in which case I'd be better off doing it myself. Seriously, if its that expensive I'll start up my own underground developing racket and charge 31 USD a roll 🙄

In the case of having to do it myself, does anyone recommend any compact C41 developing kits for film? I normally scan everything I do and rarely need to print anything.

Thanks!!

True, Switzerland is a very expensive place to live, but I think that 32$/roll is vastly exaggerated. A quick search found this company that offers C41 for 6.20 CHF/roll in Bern. There will be other, possibly even cheaper places around. Where in Switzerland are you going to live?

 

[sevo]

I doubt that Swiss labs can go that insane in their pricing, or their customers would switch to mailing their film to adjacent EU labs (which charge something in the 2€-7€/roll range). It is highly unlikely that any lab can successfully charge 20€ on top of what would be a 5€ development for avoiding the minor nuisance of a maybe 20% import VAT - that quote must be including prints or scans.

 

[zauhar]

The "C41 Press Kit" offered by B&H and Freestyle works pretty well, although it has taken a while for me to get the knack with it. You may want to try it even if you have processing available at a reasonable price. They have different branding, but I think are all the same source (Jobo).

There is a widely-available Digibase kit that I tried and failed with, maybe because I f-cked something up.

I stumbled across this company in the UK, they have a Fuji kit that I have not seen in the US:

http://www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk/products/613/fuji-c-41-film-x-press-kit-5-litres

That would be somewhat closer for you.
Randy

 

[sevo]

The "C41 Press Kit" offered by B&H and Freestyle works pretty well, although it has taken a while for me to get the knack with it. You may want to try it even if you have processing available at a reasonable price. They have different branding, but I think are all the same source (Jobo).

Probably the one made by Tetenal, and sold under their own brand in Europe.

 

[avikrc]

I was living in Switzerland last year, near Zurich. You are right, it can get pretty expensive to develop film over there, maybe CHF 20-25 :bang:. But surprisingly, there are pro labs which do it for less. I used this one: http://www.studio13.ch/ . They only took minimum orders of CHF 50 (for multiple rolls of course), but that brought the development cost of each roll down to around CHF 11.

Also, I see another website I had bookmarked (but never used) has 135 film development listed for CHF 12 in their price-list for minimu order of CHF 25. http://www.hebting.ch/

Printing and hi-quality scanning is another thing though. I hope you can rob banks

 

[sniki]

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