Is a ASA 3200 Film More Costly to Develop?

[varjag]

There's nothing in TMZ that "requires" different chemicals. All you need is film developer which makes good use of emulsion's true speed. It is nothing exotic; DD-X, Microphen, TMax or Xtol would be just fine. Processing time and agitation pattern though differs enough from "normal" films to require separate processing, and as pointed out it could be explanation for extra charge.

 

[Socke]

Raid, if they took more care and handdeveloped your film different chemistry than they use for slower film the $10 may be justified but they should have told you beforehand nevertheless.

On the other hand, I wouldn't even waste $4 on filmprocessing, doing it myself is much cheaper.

I had results I liked from Delta3200 in Tetenal Ultrafin Plus which is around 16 Euro a liter which is enough for some 30 films. Could be more with longer developing times and more films to develope, but I usualy don't shoot more than one per week and thus the mixture gets a bit old before it is used up.

Although my tank takes more chemicals than usual, 450 ml for one film, developer, stop, fixer and washing sum up to less than 2 Euro for me, even less with cheaper developers like Calbe A09.

And it is much more fun!

 

[raid]

by regular what do you mean?

if it's xp2 or another chromgenic then the 4 buck cost would be the same as any colour negative film which is usually pretty cheap.
but for b&w film some labs see that as custom work and charge more.

joe

Joe,

I meant to say that when I take to them any B&W film other than ASA3200 film, they charge me $4/roll.

Raid

 

[Socke]

Forget all what I wrote about DIY development, just had a very frustrating experience. The last reasonably local shop is out of developer and they won't stock it anymore, seems I was the last customer for chemicals there. :bang:

So when does Robert White get those demo RD-1s?

 

[PeterL]

Forget all what I wrote about DIY development, just had a very frustrating experience. The last reasonably local shop is out of developer and they won't stock it anymore, seems I was the last customer for chemicals there.

It would seem outrageous that a city like Bremen (half a million people according to Wikipedia) would not have a shop selling developer, whereas here in Leuven (90 000 inhabitants) I know one that stocks up and could probably order them from at least one other shop.

Anyway, I chose to have things developed at €7,5 for development + scans on CD. That way, I can focus on what I want to work on, i.e. composition & human interaction. But €10 for one roll seems high. I should check with my shop if they charge more for TMax3200 or other high sensitivity films.


Peter.

 

[jaapv]

I guess the real problem is that they have to adjust their machine and do a seperate run. That costs time and work. I would have thought, the number of B&W films being as small as it is, it would have been more customer-friendly either to keep the same price or say so beforehand.

 

[jamiewakeham]

I used to have a local Snappy Snaps do all my B&W for me - no extra cost for Delta 3200. Also they never charged for push/pull. I can see no reason whatsoever for charging more for 3200.

I can only wonder that they somehow got the idea that you were actually giving them a slower film pushed to 3200, and that they had to dev for much longer as a result? But if so they'd have hugely overdeveloped your negs. What do they look like?

Incidentally, despite the name, I believe Delta 3200 actually has an ISO speed of about 1200. Despite this, they DX-code the cassette as if it's 3200 and release processing times for 3200. This is really quite a push, though, and you'll get rather nicer results exposing and developing at 1200-1600; at least, I do!

Cheers
Jamie

 

[raid]

Yes, Jaap, I agree with you. If they had only told me up front about the extra cost, at least I would not have been shocked by the price.

Raid

 

[Pherdinand]

I agree, i bet they asked for more because extra attention was needed. Not an usual film to develop for them, i guess. They had to look up dev time, they had to change the process...
It does not mean it's good but it could happen.

The lab where I dropped my BW sent it out for development to another place, the price was always the same no matter what BW (unless C41). But the development for neopan 1600 was too long, e.g., while delta3200 worked well.

 

[Finder]

ISO 3200 film requires custom developing. That is what you paid for. While it would be nice of the store to tell you about the extra cost of development (and did you ask?), it is up to the customer to know what they are doing. If this is a local camera store, the staff may not even know that custom processing is required. Hell, I was told by a store clerk to go to the garden center to get Farmer's reducer!

 

[ed1k]

I was told by a store clerk to go to the garden center to get Farmer's reducer!

LOL! Really good one!

 

[Uncle Bill]

Raid,

You got taken, I developed my own roll of Delta 3200 in HC110 dilution b and it required no special times or extra chemicals. I would have a little discsusion with the manager of the lab.

Bill