Rant: Why I Hate Living in a Small Town.

[Stephanie Brim]

There's no flipping E-6 processing for 70 miles!

I decided to take some sunrise shots because, lo and behold, I go upstairs to get coffee and find these INCREDIBLE pink and orange colors staring me right in the face. So, naturally, I pick up the roll of Kodak Elite Chrome 400 that I have sitting around, load it in the camera, and shoot it. Now I have to either wait until I order the mailers to get it developed or go to Des Moines to the closest lab with same day turnaround for E-6.

What would this particular film do if I had someone dunk it in C-41 chemicals, I wonder. And, really, with how gorgeous these colors are, do I want to know?

So yeah. Bah. This sucks. It'll be a week or so before you guys can see them, probably at the earliest.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Steph,

I don't think you would want to cross-process sunrise E-6 shots. Although it might give you some really odd color combinations.

Buy a few E-6 mailers and have patience little one.

Wayne

 

[pbjbike]

I send mine to Fuji ans it's worth the wait. Anticipation will improve the colors.

 

[jonasv]

Move to a bigger city, start your own E-6 lab, or use color negative film 🙂

or just have a bit of patience! I wouldn't try developing it in c41 that's for sure..

 

[Michael I.]

I know how you feel I live in a small country (Israel) in a large but backward city(Beer Sheba). The city is poor and uneducated allthough it has one of the biggest universities in the country(90% of students come from other cities and move after their finished their degree) and still we have one of the highest city taxes in the country.

It is impossible to get decent scans and 120 film(or 120 c-41 color proccessed or scanned). BW film is scarce and overpriced(7-8$ A ROLL) chemicals are unavailable.
A lab near my house does hand developing for e-6 though.

I have to drive for 1.5 hours to Tel Aviv and for another hour or two in the city to get bw film in bulk chemicals etc.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm just frustrated. Beautiful shots and nowhere to get them processed. I suppose it's time to finally do one of two things: order mailers from B&H or order chemicals to do it myself.

 

[George S.]

You could also get a digital SLR.... 😱

 

[FrankG]

I guess that the USA is getting out of film faster than Canada. 🙂

 

[Kim Coxon]

E6 processing is very straight forward as long as you are careful with temperature. Can be a bit expensive if you don't do it in batches which rather defeats the object of speed.

Kim

 

[Michael I.]

OT:lou reed has a good song "when you live in a small town"

 

[FrankG]

The old Lou Reed band played with Alice Cooper's, "Welcome to my Nightmare," gigs. Excellent band. I saw them both way back when I was just a youngin'. 😉

 

[Stephanie Brim]

E6 processing is very straight forward as long as you are careful with temperature. Can be a bit expensive if you don't do it in batches which rather defeats the object of speed.

Kim

Yeah, which is actually why I was avoiding it. I don't shoot that much in color positive...it wouldn't be economical for me to do it myself. If I started shooting more, though...

 

[Michael I.]

by the old lou reed band you dont mean the velvet underground?

 

[Michael I.]

it might be economical if you bulk load

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm be afraid to bulk load slide film. It's expensive and I don't shoot enough to warrant it. The reason I got the few rolls I have is that they were cheap and expired.

I'll just order some mailers for the next rolls...these may be going through 59 Minute Photo in Fort Dodge to Whoever Does E-6 there.

 

[al1966]

No it wasnt the Velvets, but you know Lou shoots a leica?

 

[jano]

I cross processed some expired fuji velveeta film in c41, and had interesting results. I lost a lot of the wonderful colors in the sunset. Posted to my gallery here, but got few views and comments, so I guess people didn't really like them *shrug* I still have a few rolls of kodak e100vs which I'd like to try cross processed, too, wonder what different kinds of colors I'll get.

i.e. if you want to see the colors, then don't x-p -- unless you have sort of an idea how the kodak film will turn out.

 

[tedwhite]

You could shoot with black and white and a red filter. Clouds would be a nice touch.

 

[Kim Coxon]

I have never lived in a small town. The largest I have managed is a small villiage. For 10 years in Scotland, it was an isolated cottage near the banks of the Spey. Life is wonderful!!

Kim

 

[yossarian]

There are small towns and there are "small towns". I live in Brevard County, FL, which is an amalgamation of pissant towns trying to become important. Where I
live, Merritt Island, is unincorporated, for which I am grateful. A new restaurant was
just completed in what had been the main parking lot of Merritt Square Mall--A TGI
Fridays. New? Fridays? We're talkin' the f***king '80s here.
It gets better. North of the town of Cape Canaveral, near the port, there was a land
fill for several years, which smelled like a mixture of sour milk and rotting fish. On
that very site now are "Luxury Condominiums". I wonder if the developers will
remember to mention the land fill in their sales brochures.
Stephanie, we launch Department of Defense spy satellites, communication satellites,
and of course the Space Shuttle, when we can keep them intact. But I have to drive
30 miles to get E6 done.
All things considered, which is really crazier--your 70 or my 30?

Fred