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.