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Sorry, Sorry, Sorry - I am sure that this question has been posted many times before but I just can't see it in search results.

Still claiming to be a film photographer, I was surprised to see that the last roll of C41 I shot was about 2018. I was using poundland agfa vista ( Fuji color ) and the local Asda in store lab - - i.e. about 3 quid total. As you can see - no aspirations to the highest quality although ASDA were actually pretty good - they still has a good throughput ( fresh chemicals ) when they were taken over then closed.

B&W I do myself but I still have a lot of the cheapo film in the freezer so I thought I would have another go ( and my wife wants her freezer space back ).

I expect it is £5 + now + postage but I wondered if any one had a recommendation ? Had awful experience with Max Spielman years ago

I did check out those Rollei 25C kits but it was working out more expensive unless I was able to manage my film useage against shelf life far better than I could do.

Thanks

Richard
 
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I have used Photo express in Hull for over ten years, they only do C41, also if you quote your TP name and have two rolls developed you receive .50p
a roll discount. see their prices here.

PhotoExpress - Photo Express

www.photo-express.co.uk www.photo-express.co.uk
 
medwaygreen said:
I have used Photo express in Hull for over ten years, they only do C41, also if you quote your TP name and have two rolls developed you receive .50p
a roll discount. see their prices here.

PhotoExpress - Photo Express

www.photo-express.co.uk www.photo-express.co.uk
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Thanks, brilliant - and I remember Photoexpress.
£4 or £3.5 with a TP discount + p&p will do for me.

Time to defrost

cheers

Richard
 
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piper said:
Thanks, brilliant - and I remember Photoexpress.
£4 or £3.5 with a TP discount + p&p will do for me.

Time to defrost

cheers

Richard
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Thinking on the discount it used to be order over £10.00 you could give them a ring to find out. Two films dev plus postage return is £11.00 so should be OK.
 
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@ChrisR from these forums maintains a spreadsheet of developing prices. Link is a couple of layers down in this thread
www.talkphotography.co.uk

Links to Tutorials, Resources, Holga, Bargains and Some other Pinned threads that aren't anymore.

There were quite a lot of pinned threads in F&C some of which were really just "normal" threads so to tidy up a bit they are linked here and unpinned First of all, and probably most important in terms of helping newcomers, or returnees to film shooting...
www.talkphotography.co.uk www.talkphotography.co.uk
To save the search this is the sheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...1RruunXEHQzeJ6jHeoT7sZZylDSzjo/htmlview#gid=1
 
dmb said:
@ChrisR from these forums maintains a spreadsheet of developing prices. Link is a couple of layers down in this thread
www.talkphotography.co.uk

Links to Tutorials, Resources, Holga, Bargains and Some other Pinned threads that aren't anymore.

There were quite a lot of pinned threads in F&C some of which were really just "normal" threads so to tidy up a bit they are linked here and unpinned First of all, and probably most important in terms of helping newcomers, or returnees to film shooting...
www.talkphotography.co.uk www.talkphotography.co.uk
To save the search this is the sheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...1RruunXEHQzeJ6jHeoT7sZZylDSzjo/htmlview#gid=1
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Hmm, for some reason that G$$gle spreadsheet doesn't seem to be working for me. It shows the answers for one b&w 35mm film, but I can't change that to zero, or add a C41 film! I'll have to look into it, probably got locked again, Grrr.

Looking at my local copy, for 1 roll of 135 dev-only I have Filmdev cheapest at £5, then Photo-Hippo at £5.25, and SilverPanLab at £6. All those costs would be plus outwards postage though, which would officially be £4.45 I think, for 1st class (I usually manage to get away with a large letter stamp in a jiffy bag, but it's risky).

Taking the postage into account, one of the freepost labs would probably be cheapest, eg AG at £8.43 or The Dark Room at £8.70, but Harman Labs at £9.95 would be more expensive than Filmdev plus postage.

If you send more films in one batch, the balance changes a bit back towards the non-freepost labs, although AG at £22.39 for 5 still beats Filmdev at £19 plus £4.45 postage!
 
Just checked the link in the original thread that @dmb pointed to, and it worked for me, giving the same results I summarised above. I've no idea why it didn't work when I clicked on David's "save the search" link! Anyway, I can relax again!
 
ChrisR said:
Checked the link in the original thread that @dmb pointed to, and it worked for me, giving the same results I summarised above. I've no idea why it didn't work when I clicked on David's "save the search" link! Anyway, I can relax again!
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Odd, either link worked for me on my phone but web browser requires me to use the Android Sheets app to let me edit, not near a PC at the moment.

<edit> The link I copied from my phone browser and pasted ends with "...zjo/htmlview#gid=1" rather than just "...zjo/#gid=1" - the former link in a PC browser forces it not to log into Google docs or allow you to edit but just show the layout of the sheet. </edit>
 
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FilmDev are always good value.
 
Thanks for all your help and I am still wading through the tremendously helpful resources that you have put together on this forum. The ssheet from Chris R works for me on a laptop - very useful and with recent prices april 22 I see.

Hadn't come accross the Bellini C41 kits but I see that they get good reviews here and elsewhere. I will pass at the moment for reasons I explained above: just not enough anticipated throughput - but I may come back to that or the 25 C kits ( even though I could "borrow" my wife's sous vide. )

As I said B&W no problem for the basics and I even picked up a daylight loader Agfa Rondinax 35 years ago which takes the hassle out of feeding a spiral in a change bag.

cheers

Richard
 
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I use a shop local to me with their own developing machine and it costs me £3.00 a roll. Mind you that is scanned and no prints. Still, excellent value though. And the results are excellent too.
 
My brother passed away unexpectedly last week and amongst 3 boxes of camera gear were 10 cassettes of C41 which I would like to get developed to see if there is anything on them, does anyone know of somewhere in Kent who would develope these at a reasonable cost?
 
Just as a comparison

NTPhotoworks Dev + Scan to TIFF (High Res?) = £17.70 inc return postage
Filmdev Dev + Scan to TIFF (High Res?) = £12 inc return postage.

@ChrisR put together a nifty price calculator here
 
Steve2 said:
My brother passed away unexpectedly last week and amongst 3 boxes of camera gear were 10 cassettes of C41 which I would like to get developed to see if there is anything on them, does anyone know of somewhere in Kent who would develope these at a reasonable cost?
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Really sorry to hear that Steve. Google says that there is a SnappySnaps in Maidstone High Street, but I've no experience of their quality and I couldn't even see their pricelist on their website. Worth a call in the first instance maybe? https://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/maidstone/services/film-processing.html
 
Peter B said:
Really sorry to hear that Steve. Google says that there is a SnappySnaps in Maidstone High Street, but I've no experience of their quality and I couldn't even see their pricelist on their website. Worth a call in the first instance maybe? https://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/maidstone/services/film-processing.html
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Hunted down the prices - have to search for processing on product search - https://www.snappysnaps.co.uk/maidstone/option-3-colour.html shows £10 for dev and scan to CD
 
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Plain Nev said:
I use a shop local to me with their own developing machine and it costs me £3.00 a roll. Mind you that is scanned and no prints. Still, excellent value though. And the results are excellent too.
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Huh where do you live...India, China ;)
 
excalibur2 said:
Huh where do you live...India, China ;)
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Now, now. As it happens they appear to have put their prices up. Looks like it is £5.00 for scans now. I can't easily link to it, but if you want to check out Photo Studio in Tewkesbury you'll find it's correct.
 
I find these guys on eBay to be very good:-
www.ebay.co.uk

Photo Factory | eBay Stores

Buy with confidence from us! Owned by the same person since 1979 (formerly STP Cameras). We only sell genuine goods (NO COUNTERFEIT GOODS HERE!). Our goal is to achieve 100% customer satisfaction.
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I dare say you can access their services outside of eBay but it works for me.
 
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