Thread 4411869

>it now cost $20 to develop film only with no prints or scans
AHHHHHHHHH

>>4411869 (OP)
>tfw make my on rodinal with painkillers and drain cleaner
>use pool cleaner as a fixer
>shoot fomapan
Life is comfy bros

>>4411869 (OP)
Just paid $7.67 for a c41 dev only at my local lab. Sorry you live in the boonies and have to mail it I guess

>>4411870
>this anon is ready to die for his hobby
Based

>>4411869 (OP)
the lab near me does C-41 35mm for $7 and C-41 120 for $3.75. Black and white and E-6 are more expensive though. I can shoot 645 and scan it myself with okish results, certainty not like super high mp or whatever, but good enough for IG and computer screens

I just mailed off some e6 for $13/roll which is the same as it was 3 years ago. Is OP australian or something?
>>4411909
dang that's cheap, I'd shoot lots of 120 gold
I gave up onmy local lab after they lost or fucked up several rolls

>>4411926
yeah idk how she makes money. I assume is on scanning and prints

>>4411869 (OP)
My local places charged the equiv of five bucks USD for a 36 roll developed but not scanned. $12 all up if you want it scanned too. Same prices for multiple establishments.

>>4411870
Years ago I made my own colour dev chemicals including a diafine style colour dev. Until I wound up using Kodak e6 lab chems and c41 flexicolor and replenishing them at home, was real cheap to replenish

>>4411869 (OP)
I shoot b&w and pretend I do it because of elevated taste

>>4411869 (OP)
film isnt for poor hipsters anymore

>>4411935
those stickers cost a lot of money.

>>4411869 (OP)
This is awful

high quality scans are 4 euros on top. If you shoot that much film where these prices become an issue get your own lab and enlarge your photos yourself.

>>4411869 (OP)
Used to do my own c41 and e6 for super cheap

>>4419641
is anything like that? yes.

>>4411876
Memphis film lab does $5 developing only and that's mail-in

>>4412066
that's pretty good, my local ones are $14 for the place that has a week turnaround time and $18+ for the others, it's too much. I'd pay $14 if I could get it back the next day

>spend a few hundred dollars on a scanning rig because getting my film scanned at the dev lab doubles the total price
>they double dev prices
And this is why I no longer shoot film.

>>4424730
>not switching to black and white and self dev
coward

>>4411869 (OP)
It’s worse now

>>4411869 (OP)
Why is black and white more expensive to develop, when anybody can do it at home?

>>4424730
I sold $1000 of film camera and lenses over this shit. The labs aren't even consistently high quality anymore. Most of them are pushing enough volume for mistakes to slip through.

Self dev isn't a real alternative. I don't like B&W, and doing it in color is a huge fucking PITA for anything less than carefully planned sheet film shoots.

>>4431359
>literally the same process as black and white except temp controlled.

WOW what a gigantic insurmountable and impossibly difficult thing to have to do, truly.

In the whole film history today's price is not that high. it's rather average price.
Last decade had extraordinarily cheap price of films.
Of cause all of this is because Cuckdak has been diminished their camera film production since start of 2019 or 2020 if im correct. Don't ask about fujifilm. they are cosmetic chemical company not film company.

>>4431559
>they are cosmetic chemical company
*Pharmaceutical

>>4431353
For big labs usually it’s cause the automated machines are set up for colour, so they end up doing b/w in a less automated way or just manually.

>>4411869 (OP)
tri-x + diy

>>4411869 (OP)
I pay like $6 USD equiv here in NZ for dev only at my local place

That's cooked lmao. Our film costs offset it though I guess?

>>4411869 (OP)
We are living in times of hyperinflation man. Money is worth way less. Sucks.

>picked up 5 rolls of wolfencolor nc500 for 25 bucks
Damn alright alright

>>4411869 (OP)
just do it yourself

>>4411869 (OP)
Yeah. Developed a 120 B&W and 135 color the other week. Just short or $30 for develop & "small" scans.

Motivation for me to learn how to develop Or at least B&W since I understand it's easier to do. Plus I can make use of the bulk loader I bought a while back.

Should I get a scanner? Is it a quality = price thing or can I get by with mid-low range gear?

scanner is good

>>4411869 (OP)
>he shoots in colour
>he doesn't shoot exclusively in B&W

lol.

>he doesn't have his own darkroom in his house
>with his own fix/stop/developer baths, enlarger, drying racks, sink, and trimming station

lmao even. if you shoot film in 2025 and send it off to someone to process you get what you deserve.

>>4411869 (OP)
Jesus Christ

Cinestill has a $30 kit to develop 24 color rolls. That's barely more than $1 each.

the money isnt the issue for me its being duped into using millenial run "local enthusiast" labs rather than megacorp photo processing as the former have had a single roll of kodak gold for two fucking weeks and the Arasaka of photo developing turned it around in a week, including actually sending the roll off. Fuck small businesses.

>>4411869 (OP)
develop your film at home. it's so fucking easy it's embarrassing that more people dont do it
i guess it's the consoomercattle mindset

>>4424756
c41 is like black and white you only have to watch temps more carefully
there's no reason to use labs. labs are scams targeting the mentally challenged and vulnerable (film hipsters)

>>4411869 (OP)
welcome to film in 2025

>>4468260
I don't do it because it doesn't make sense to me, I barely shoot a roll of c41 a color and the chemicals will just go bad and waste unlike my bottle of rodinal that I had since 2015.

>>4468260
B&W is piss easy, just takes time.
C-41 is easy, but takes more time and requires a dedicated space.
I'm not processing E-6 at home fuck that.

>>4468303
are there even films that require e6 nowadays?

>>4468311
Yes? E100 is still being produced.

>>4411869 (OP)
Sad thread

Good, hipsters and boomers need to suffer more

>>4411869 (OP)
>shoot film because it's better than digital
>use lab because processing at home is scary
>get scans because meds ran out and the money is tight so buy film instead of mental illness pills
film photogs are the most retarded larpers out there. shoot film just to get digital files anyway. lol

>>4431359
>and doing it in color is a huge fucking PITA
halp my art isn't a one click consoomer cattle affair.

>>4411869 (OP)
skill issue
chemistry prices didn't change much
I develop, print and/or scan my film myself saved a shitton of money in the long run
at least if you shoot quite often

>>4411869 (OP)
why would you shoot film when digital is free photos?

>>4479824
>Shoot myself naked in the mirror every day
>Have dedicated camera for this, so only naked shots of me on film
>Ilford FP4, develop myself using permanganate/sulfuric acid reversal process
>Cut and tape the film strips in a drawing book with bright white sheets
>Copy "Sun and Steel" character by character with a black ink brush next to the strips of me.

Call me when I can do this using digital, I want to live a little while I'm here