Film developing, how much?

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I'm too lazy to develop my own films by and large so I use a high st service. Including the cost of posting film to them I pay a bit less than £14 a roll and less if I post two or three rolls at once. That is for dev, scan and return negs.

In my local town is high st shop that offers film development so I thought I'd ask how much it cost as I would be saving on postage.

£27.

How is it more than £10 more expensive to use a local shop. I know both shops are a similar size and have similar staff and machines etc.

The photos I take are not fine art nor of anything I really care about, mostly I'm taking them to give an impression what someone could reasonably expect from a particular camera when I make a video about it so if they get lost in the post I'm not too concerned.



So it pays to shop around. I just wish Royal Mail didn't charge £5 to post a film!
 
Give Stuck in film a go, it's run by good friends of mine

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Thank you all for your replies, I'm happy with the service I get but I was more taken aback with the local shop which is basically the same as my usual place, just local. They could of had my bussiness but priced themselves out if the market.
I'm happy to support uk bussiness but in that context everywhere is local to where they are.
I understand many people won't want to post films but I'm OK with it.
I might try Stuck in Film however.
Thanks again
 
I can't for the life of me, understand why people pay someone else to develop their film when it so easy to do yourself, yet SSSSSOOOOOOO expensive when done elsewhere. :facepalm:

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I suppose it's like cooking meals yourself vs eating supermarket's processed s*it and takeaways. :rolleyes:
 
Sky said:
I can't for the life of me, understand why people pay someone else to develop their film when it so easy to do yourself, yet SSSSSOOOOOOO expensive when done elsewhere. :facepalm:

Amazon link

I suppose it's like cooking meals yourself vs eating supermarket's processed s*it and takeaways. :rolleyes:
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8-10 rolls at £50 total, I normally pay £5 dev only for my films, where is the cost saving????
 
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Sky said:
I can't for the life of me, understand why people pay someone else to develop their film when it so easy to do yourself, yet SSSSSOOOOOOO expensive when done elsewhere. :facepalm:

Amazon link

I suppose it's like cooking meals yourself vs eating supermarket's processed s*it and takeaways. :rolleyes:
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Not everyone has a high res scanner.
 
Sky said:
I can't for the life of me, understand why people pay someone else to develop their film when it so easy to do yourself
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The same could be said for car repairs, most jobs I could do myself and in the past when I was hard up I did but now I don't have to. As you say it is very cheap to develop film which is why £27 to do it commercially is crazy money when I'm paying less than £10 elsewhere (plus postage).

I'm minded to go back to my local shop and talk to them about it tbh. It's only C41 35mm and 120. I did send some 110 to my regular guy once but the scans were not good and I re scanned them myself.
 
Sky said:
I can't for the life of me, understand why people pay someone else to develop their film when it so easy to do yourself, yet SSSSSOOOOOOO expensive when done elsewhere. :facepalm:

Amazon link

I suppose it's like cooking meals yourself vs eating supermarket's processed s*it and takeaways. :rolleyes:
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That's £6.25 a roll to do it myself.... Plus the cost of all the other equipment, plus the space to set up all the other equipment, plus the time to set the equipment up, plus the time to do the actual developing and then the time to clear everything up.

Or I can pay Photographique £7 to do it for me.....?

And doing it myself I'll end up with negatives that I can't do anything with..... unless I buy equipment and then set up some way of scanning them myself and then take that set up down afterwards after spending more time doing that.....

I don't see any comparison with that to the way I eat either :)
 
Sky said:
I suppose it's like cooking meals yourself vs eating supermarket's processed s*it and takeaways. :rolleyes:
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Sometimes there are considerations that transcend convenience or cost. In my case, I can cook everything I enjoy eating, but in this hot weather anything that requires a lengthy cooking time or the oven would just make the kitchen (and house) far too hot. I did make a rissotto last night that involved cooking an onion and a red pepper before getting to the rice etc., but that was as long as want to be generating more heat! So, yes, I have had a couple of microwave ready meals in the last week.
 
I only cook two or three times a month, but I batch cook. I then freeze portions, so I can just 'ping & eat' when it suits me. All natural, with nothing added that is better suited to running diesel engines.
 
for me, it's the scanning that lets me down which is why I still use the lab for colour and B&W 35mm and 120. 4x5 B&W I home dev and scan and 8x10 I lab develop and home scan (B&W)

I can't get high enough quality scans at home from 35mm at all and I can't for the life of me get colour that I like from them so I still use the lab. I have had decent results from home scanning B&W 120 so may start developing that again.
 
Home scanning is definitely not up to lab standard when I do it. I have had a really good scanner but it was time consuming to get good scans so it's a no brainer to have someone else do it and their lab isn't full of dust and cat hair either. There isn't a home level scanner that does the resolution now. The minolta one I had was the scanner that had a genuine resolution that was up there with lab scans. It made weird noises and stopped scanning properly so FilmDev was it.

If someone invented a daylight home dev and scan machine that would pop out a roll straight into the scanner after being done and scanned the entire roll to the same standard as the Noritsu scans I get I might be tempted but I don't think that is going to be cheap enough as it's only £8 a roll for a decent scan in C41.
 
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