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Best option for large film processing order?
Not so long ago I had an SLR and was shooting film faster than I could
keep up with having it processed, then said SLR was stolen, and I went digital for reasons of logistics and economics. I still have, however, a sizable amount of film I need processed/printed (literally dozens of rolls). What would be the best option for handling these? I'd like to have them processed by someone who's going to do a halfway decent job, but considering the volume I'd like to keep the cost reasonable. The film is all run-of-the-mill 35mm, no unusual processes. I'd pretty much like two sets of matte prints from each. I don't need digital scans (unless they're really cheap or free) because the quality I get from lab scans is never all that good anyway. Are Snapfish or York reliable enough to send it out to? Their prices are very good. Or, alternatively, is it possible to go straight to Qualex or someone with a very large order and get a better price? Any other reasonable choices? I'm in the Boston area, if that matters. |
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Best option for large film processing order?
"Pete" wrote in message oups.com... Not so long ago I had an SLR and was shooting film faster than I could keep up with having it processed, then said SLR was stolen, and I went digital for reasons of logistics and economics. I still have, however, a sizable amount of film I need processed/printed (literally dozens of rolls). What would be the best option for handling these? I'd like to have them processed by someone who's going to do a halfway decent job, but considering the volume I'd like to keep the cost reasonable. The film is all run-of-the-mill 35mm, no unusual processes. I'd pretty much like two sets of matte prints from each. I don't need digital scans (unless they're really cheap or free) because the quality I get from lab scans is never all that good anyway. Are Snapfish or York reliable enough to send it out to? Their prices are very good. Or, alternatively, is it possible to go straight to Qualex or someone with a very large order and get a better price? Any other reasonable choices? I'm in the Boston area, if that matters. BJ's Wholesale Club uses Qualex. 24-exp and 5 x 7 prints are $3.99. Costco used to use Qualex but I seem to recall that they recently dropped film processing. Not sure of this. |
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Best option for large film processing order?
On 2007-03-29 17:35:25 -0400, "jeremy" said:
"Pete" wrote in message oups.com... Not so long ago I had an SLR and was shooting film faster than I could keep up with having it processed, then said SLR was stolen, and I went digital for reasons of logistics and economics. I still have, however, a sizable amount of film I need processed/printed (literally dozens of rolls). What would be the best option for handling these? I'd like to have them processed by someone who's going to do a halfway decent job, but considering the volume I'd like to keep the cost reasonable. The film is all run-of-the-mill 35mm, no unusual processes. I'd pretty much like two sets of matte prints from each. I don't need digital scans (unless they're really cheap or free) because the quality I get from lab scans is never all that good anyway. Are Snapfish or York reliable enough to send it out to? Their prices are very good. Or, alternatively, is it possible to go straight to Qualex or someone with a very large order and get a better price? Any other reasonable choices? I'm in the Boston area, if that matters. BJ's Wholesale Club uses Qualex. 24-exp and 5 x 7 prints are $3.99. Costco used to use Qualex but I seem to recall that they recently dropped film processing. Not sure of this. Snapfish is OK. m |
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Best option for large film processing order?
jeremy wrote:
BJ's Wholesale Club uses Qualex. 24-exp and 5 x 7 prints are $3.99. Costco used to use Qualex but I seem to recall that they recently dropped film processing. Not sure of this. Costco did indeed drop Qualex and all offsite film processing [at least in the Twin Cities area]. The only economical option that I can recommend is using Fuji mailers, which is about $4.25 per roll plus two stamps. It is possible to put all the film in a single box along with the proper amount of mailers and to ship to the address on the mailers ... this could save considerable postage. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: D281 77A5 63EE 82C5 5E68 00E4 7868 0ADC 4EFB 39F0 |
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Best option for large film processing order?
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
jeremy wrote: BJ's Wholesale Club uses Qualex. 24-exp and 5 x 7 prints are $3.99. Costco used to use Qualex but I seem to recall that they recently dropped film processing. Not sure of this. Costco did indeed drop Qualex and all offsite film processing [at least in the Twin Cities area]. The only economical option that I can recommend is using Fuji mailers, which is about $4.25 per roll plus two stamps. It is possible to put all the film in a single box along with the proper amount of mailers and to ship to the address on the mailers ... this could save considerable postage. Oh ... of course the recommendation I just gave is for E6 processing of slide film and doesn't include making prints. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: D281 77A5 63EE 82C5 5E68 00E4 7868 0ADC 4EFB 39F0 |
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