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What do you pay for developing?
I'm wondering what some of you have to pay for developing and printing 120
film. I take mine to my local Wal-Mart in central Wisconsin and get ten pictures (from a 6X7 camera) for $1.44. The only thing I don't like is that it takes 2 weeks. I can't see how they can even make a profit at that rate. A roll of 35mm is only about $2.44 for a 24 exposure roll. This wasn't a special or anything, I have had several done for that price. However I had a b/w roll (120 format) a few weeks ago and for that I was charged $8+. For those that will say the developing is garbage there, I'm satisfied and I scan most of the negatives anyway. So what I'm wondering is $1.44 the going rate and if so, why process at home? Thanks. Ric in Wisconsin. |
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What do you pay for developing?
Ric Trexell wrote:
I'm wondering what some of you have to pay for developing and printing 120 film. I take mine to my local Wal-Mart in central Wisconsin and get ten pictures (from a 6X7 camera) for $1.44. The only thing I don't like is that it takes 2 weeks. I can't see how they can even make a profit at that rate. A roll of 35mm is only about $2.44 for a 24 exposure roll. This wasn't a special or anything, I have had several done for that price. However I had a b/w roll (120 format) a few weeks ago and for that I was charged $8+. For those that will say the developing is garbage there, I'm satisfied and I scan most of the negatives anyway. So what I'm wondering is $1.44 the going rate and if so, why process at home? Thanks. Ric in Wisconsin. I only get it developed (E-6) for about CAD$6 / roll (cut and sleeved). I scan at home for printing. When I occasionally get C-41 done, then I do get 5x5" prints with it as an index, not as finals. Total is about CAD$14. I've never tried Wal*Merde for this... not sure if the local one handles 120 for that matter. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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What do you pay for developing?
"Ric Trexell" wrote in message net... I'm wondering what some of you have to pay for developing and printing 120 film. I take mine to my local Wal-Mart in central Wisconsin and get ten pictures (from a 6X7 camera) for $1.44. The only thing I don't like is that it takes 2 weeks. I can't see how they can even make a profit at that rate. A roll of 35mm is only about $2.44 for a 24 exposure roll. This wasn't a special or anything, I have had several done for that price. However I had a b/w roll (120 format) a few weeks ago and for that I was charged $8+. For those that will say the developing is garbage there, I'm satisfied and I scan most of the negatives anyway. So what I'm wondering is $1.44 the going rate and if so, why process at home? Thanks. Ric in Wisconsin. Obviously, I don't know your local WalMart, but most of the one-hour minilabs can't handle anything other than 35mm film. And if they do process mostly 35mm, you probably don't want them to develope your 120 film. The rollers in the processors will have a "track" worn in them 35mm wide and could damage your 120 film. Since you say it takes 2 weeks, they are probably out-labbing the film- shipping it out to a central lab that serves many stores. This is a good news bad news thing. It's more likely that the central lab has experienced people- more experienced than the typical WalMart "photolab tech". But your film is being transported, which incrreases the chance of it being lost. The price you are paying is very attractive. The price you quote for 35mm ($2.44)- is that for two week turnaround or one hour? I suspect that the processing was incorrectly coded in the store's computer. Don't be too suprized if it suddenly goes up. |
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" The price you are paying is very attractive. The price you quote for 35mm ($2.44)- is that for two week turnaround or one hour? I suspect that the processing was incorrectly coded in the store's computer. Don't be too suprized if it suddenly goes up. ************************************************** ******************** The price for 35mm has always been very low. I'm not talking about 1 roll but many rolls. Lately they now take a week for a 35mm roll, whereas it used to be that if it went out on a Monday, you got it on a Wednesday. MF film takes 2 weeks. A lot of the delay now is due to digital cutting into the amount of rolls being developed. Ric. |
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What do you pay for developing?
"Ric Trexell" wrote in message net... " The price you are paying is very attractive. The price you quote for 35mm ($2.44)- is that for two week turnaround or one hour? I suspect that the processing was incorrectly coded in the store's computer. Don't be too suprized if it suddenly goes up. ************************************************** ******************** The price for 35mm has always been very low. I'm not talking about 1 roll but many rolls. Lately they now take a week for a 35mm roll, whereas it used to be that if it went out on a Monday, you got it on a Wednesday. MF film takes 2 weeks. A lot of the delay now is due to digital cutting into the amount of rolls being developed. Ric. Please define "many rolls". I've taken a half dozen rolls of 35mm into my local WalMart, and the price has always been about $7 each for one hour processing. No one has ever said anything about a quantity deal. Does your local Walmart do on-site film developing? Is there a large machine there with strips of negs hanging on racks? Or is it just a counter with a clerk filling out processing bags and tossing them into a bin? As much as people may hate Walmart for whatever reason, they are a leader in sales. If they are going to off-site (out-lab) processing of film, I think that's bad news for film. As long as you can shoot a roll of film, take it to your local Walmart/CVS/Rite-Aid for processing on your lunchbreak and pick up your prints on your way home, film will live on. When Walmart trains the consumer that film takes a week, digital is ten minutes, film will have a tough life! For me, I'll shoot digital when you can get the developer stains off my cold dead hands! (Apologies to the NRA and the late Charlton Heston!) |
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Ric Trexell wrote,on my timestamp of 30/04/2009 3:02 AM:
I'm wondering what some of you have to pay for developing and printing 120 film. I take mine to my local Wal-Mart in central Wisconsin and get ten pictures (from a 6X7 camera) for $1.44. The only thing I don't like is that it takes 2 weeks. I can't see how they can even make a profit at that rate. A roll of 35mm is only about $2.44 for a 24 exposure roll. This wasn't a special or anything, I have had several done for that price. However I had a b/w roll (120 format) a few weeks ago and for that I was charged $8+. For those that will say the developing is garbage there, I'm satisfied and I scan most of the negatives anyway. So what I'm wondering is $1.44 the going rate and if so, why process at home? Thanks. Ric in Wisconsin. $1.44 is a bit low over here. I get $10 for each 120 roll, but that's Australian dollars. Roughly equivalent to $6US. That's development only. I do my own scanning and printing and do development as well for b&w. 35mm is a bit more, for 36-length film: $12. This is a commercial place, they can do same day but I usually let them take 24 hours: they work better that way. If I take the work to the pro lab, they do 120 for $7 ($4US) and 35mm for $9. But I have to get out of my way for it and it takes up to 48 hours for the film to be back. |
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"K W Hart" wrote in message ... "Ric Trexell" wrote in message net... " The price you are paying is very attractive. The price you quote for 35mm ($2.44)- is that for two week turnaround or one hour? I suspect that the processing was incorrectly coded in the store's computer. Don't be too suprized if it suddenly goes up. ************************************************** ******************** The price for 35mm has always been very low. I'm not talking about 1 roll but many rolls. ************************************************** ******* Please define "many rolls". I've taken a half dozen rolls of 35mm into my local WalMart, and the price has always been about $7 each for one hour processing. No one has ever said anything about a quantity deal. ************************************************** ********************* I didn't use good wording there. The point you made was that it could have been a mistake on that one roll. I was saying that the prices of several rolls, meaning over the last few months or years have been low. They ship everything out to a Fuji lab and I learned this weekend (because a 120 roll was labeled as 110 and misplaced) that they, the Fuji lab, sends some of there film out. Yes, film developing has dropped off there at Wal-Mart and that is why they only pick up during the week. I remember many times in the past when I would drop my film into the container and it was packed. Now there are about 10 rolls being sent off. I still like film for the color and other things. Plus I can scan it so I have the best of both worlds. The day may come when film users will need to either send it somewhere half way around the world for developing or have our own darkroom. Right now with $1.44 developing for 120 film, I can't afford to monkey with a darkroom. Ric. |
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What do you pay for developing?
I'd like to point it out that nowadays, if someone is displeased with the quality, service, speed or pricing of colour negative development, it's not that much of a trouble to do it yourself, especially if you've ever done B&W negative developing before. It's not too much more trouble with today's 3-bath kits. And you don't need a darkroom, all you need is a kitchen sink, a tank and a black "strait jacket" type film changing bag. |
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What do you pay for developing?
"Toni Nikkanen" wrote in message ... I'd like to point it out that nowadays, if someone is displeased with the quality, service, speed or pricing of colour negative development, it's not that much of a trouble to do it yourself, especially if you've ever done B&W negative developing before. It's not too much more trouble with today's 3-bath kits. And you don't need a darkroom, all you need is a kitchen sink, a tank and a black "strait jacket" type film changing bag. ************************************************** ****** Yes, and if you are going to only scan the negatives, you can get by without and enlarger and all the other stuff that goes with printing. Good point, it is something to consider if more places drop developing. Ric. |
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What do you pay for developing?
On 2009-05-02 22:09:47 -0400, "Ric Trexell" said:
"Toni Nikkanen" wrote in message ... I'd like to point it out that nowadays, if someone is displeased with the quality, service, speed or pricing of colour negative development, it's not that much of a trouble to do it yourself, especially if you've ever done B&W negative developing before. It's not too much more trouble with today's 3-bath kits. And you don't need a darkroom, all you need is a kitchen sink, a tank and a black "strait jacket" type film changing bag. ************************************************** ****** Yes, and if you are going to only scan the negatives, you can get by without and enlarger and all the other stuff that goes with printing. Good point, it is something to consider if more places drop developing. Ric. And slides also. It looks as though Dwayne's will be in it for the duration as long as Kodachrome is produced, and E6 is no more difficult to home process than C41, just a couple of extra steps. You get slides for projection (if you like) and scanning. -- Michael |
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