Who says shooting film is expensive....

[JayC]

This is how my attempts at sending out film to Fuji has progressed:

• Instructions followed. $1.50
• film cut. $3.50
• film returned undeveloped
• film cut and double prints. $9.00
• instructions followed. $free

It has all been marked as "do not print, do not cut", etc...

 

[dallard]

Wow, that's all over the place.

 

[capito]

I once had a roll of film developed at no cost because they read "Do not cut" too late!

Your experience really is extreme.

 

[batterytypehah!]

This is using which channels?

I'm extremely pleased with sending 120 to Fuji via Walmart. If you can live with the two week wait, the price is unbeatable. 84 cents for sleeved and cut negs, no prints. $2 and change, IIRC, with prints. The number of exposures on the roll doesn't seem to make a difference in price.

Just cross out the standard choices and write what you need in the special instructions box. "Send out only, 120 format, C-41, develop + 1 set prints" works for me.

 

[gavinlg]

Here in Australia, it costs $15 for a roll of 35mm negative film, $30 for a roll of e6, $10 to develop them, and $10-20 to scan them.

So yeah, it's pretty expensive considering that 10 rolls of 35mm film would cost $400 to buy, develop and scan.

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Here in Australia, it costs $15 for a roll of 35mm negative film, $30 for a roll of e6, $10 to develop them, and $10-20 to scan them.

So yeah, it's pretty expensive considering that 10 rolls of 35mm film would cost $400 to buy, develop and scan.

Even by Aussie standards that's pretty stiff pricing. My local lab way down here in Hobart is 21.90 processed and mounted for a roll of 36 exp E6, around $12 per roll of 120.
Regards,
Brett

 

[taskoni]

I do!
I'll tell you what's expensive 😀
I have slowly started a project in LF (4x5). In Lithuania where I live at the moment you can not find to buy 4x5 negatives, you don't have where to develop 4x5 negative, you don't have where to scan it with a proper drum scanner for a big baaaadaaaaasss prints, so I have to do everything abroad. Now I am buying from &bay negs, I am sending them for processing in Stockholm in one lab, I am scanning them there but in another lab and shipping them back here to print them 😀
When time is money, waiting 2 weeks for negs to arrive and 3 more to develop and scan them and the post expenses and additional fees, well, you 've got the image.
... and I have planed to shoot 101 studio portraits 😀
Well, it all seems like a bad dream now.
Regards,
Boris

 

[paulfish4570]

keep at it, Boris, if it will not break you financially ...

 

[deerstalkr]

Here in Australia, it costs $15 for a roll of 35mm negative film, $30 for a roll of e6, $10 to develop them, and $10-20 to scan them.

So yeah, it's pretty expensive considering that 10 rolls of 35mm film would cost $400 to buy, develop and scan.

I was fairly young when my family and a lot of other people used film, but I didn't fully understand the concept of money back then so the price of having film processed wasn't a concern of mine.

I started shooting film not too long ago and thought $10 - $15 per roll was the standard price and didn't think twice. Looks like I was wrong... Plus I have to wait a few days to get it back. What happened to the one hour photo labs?

 

[dogbunny]

I just bought 10 rolls of short-dated acros from freestyle for 2 dollars a roll. After shipping all the way to Kazakhstan it is costing me less than 5 dollars a roll. I'll develop it at home with chemicals that cost me about 20 dollars per 100 rolls or so. I'm not a mathematician, but I feel it is not too expensive. I probably spend more on coca-cola if I added it all up.

 

[randomm]

I started shooting film not too long ago and thought $10 - $15 per roll was the standard price and didn't think twice. Looks like I was wrong... Plus I have to wait a few days to get it back. What happened to the one hour photo labs?

Cheapest way to process is to do it yourself. Its easy! Both colour and B&W. If I had to pay 10-15 bucks per roll for development, I would shoot digital, but that's just the frugal me.

One hour labs went out of business when consumers switched to digital.

 

[delft]

At those prices, I'd start doing C41 at home again! It is not very complicated.

Dirk

 

[deerstalkr]

Cheapest way to process is to do it yourself. Its easy! Both colour and B&W. If I had to pay 10-15 bucks per roll for development, I would shoot digital, but that's just the frugal me.

One hour labs went out of business when consumers switched to digital.

I must admit I only had one roll developed at that price. I had planned to develop them in bulk to receive a discount from the lab. I've read enough to be as confident as I could be to develop film for the first time. I may just do that in the following week.

It's a shame that the one hour labs have gone out of business. A local family owned lab decided to shut down last year. It was actually quite sad to see it go as it has been there for as long as I could remember.

 

[The Dark]

In my country, Malaysia I still can get my 120 and 135 films developed (not cut, no prints, no scans) at a reasonable price of RM5 (about USD 1.60) per roll. Seeing prices in some other countries makes feel so lucky.

 

[oftheherd]

I finally decided to try Walmart's E6 development, and shot a roll in my XA just for that. That was about 4 weeks ago. A couple of trips to ask when I didn't receive a phone call got me nothing. Yesterday I called and the person in the photo department checked by number on the receipt. It's there, yeah! Except when I went in last night, it wasn't to be found. "Well, I can have the department manager call you tomorrow." I'm waiting for that now. The next roll will go to Precision.

 

[aad]

No 1 hour places left in Australia?

 

[jsrockit]

So yeah, it's pretty expensive considering that 10 rolls of 35mm film would cost $400 to buy, develop and scan.

And in NYC you pay this and sometimes get scratches and ****ty scans too. It's why I went all digital. Unless I'm printing in a wet darkroom (color and B&W), I will never use film again.

 

[batterytypehah!]

I finally decided to try Walmart's E6 development, and shot a roll in my XA just for that. That was about 4 weeks ago. A couple of trips to ask when I didn't receive a phone call got me nothing. Yesterday I called and the person in the photo department checked by number on the receipt. It's there, yeah! Except when I went in last night, it wasn't to be found. "Well, I can have the department manager call you tomorrow." I'm waiting for that now. The next roll will go to Precision.

It's not "Walmart's." It's Fuji, which in turn has been sending E-6 on to Dwayne's for years now (how's this for irony, btw?). So call Fuji or Dwayne's and leave the Walmart employees alone, they simply have no way of knowing. They just house the drop-off box and handle the pick-up and the money.

 

[Keith]

No 1 hour places left in Australia?

Last time I checked the local Kodak one hour at 'The Gap' not far from where I live was still developing C41. The guy who owns and runs the place used to work for Olympus back in the days of the OM-1s and 2s and although they are lucky to get a couple of rolls a day he keeps the machine operating. He did tell me though that when it becomes unservicable that's it ... no more film!

Currently they don't turn the machine on until midday to conserve it's use as much as possible.

Tha last pro lab I used in Brisbane was very expensive and it was what made me start deveoping my own film at home. Twelve dollars just to develop a roll of conventional black and white ... no prints! From memory they wanted twenty dollars extra for low res scans!

 

[Bob Michaels]

I finally decided to try Walmart's E6 development, and shot a roll in my XA just for that. That was about 4 weeks ago. A couple of trips to ask when I didn't receive a phone call got me nothing. Yesterday I called and the person in the photo department checked by number on the receipt. It's there, yeah! Except when I went in last night, it wasn't to be found. "Well, I can have the department manager call you tomorrow." I'm waiting for that now. The next roll will go to Precision.

As I remember, there is a phone number on your ticket stub that you can call, enter your ticket number, and get an automated response where you film is. That will tell you if you film has been received at Duanes, processed, shipped back to WalMart. It will not tell you anything that happens at WalMart once they get your film back.