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by **samsonite** » Mon May 16, 2005 4:12 pm

i know i use this place as my personal knowledge base, but hey. im gonna do it again.

i recently bought a lomo fisheye camera, which takes good old fashioned 35mm film. i love it and want to use it all the time. however, using boots cos its close to work will cripple me financially if i keep on at this rate.

does anyone have any top tips for cheap processing? postal processing? supermarkets? ideally i would like it to be a couple of days, but im interested to hear what u guys reckon.

ta in advance. pints for anyone to really give me some good info.

by **bendover** » Mon May 16, 2005 4:23 pm

when i was a student i used to go to the small chemist by the cameo cinema. they did a student discount, a loyalty card with some kind of reward for every 4th or 5th film you processed, and a free film with every film that you put in to be processed. which was fine by me. the prints weren't amazing but for me this was mind of irrelevant because i was always more interested in the negatives., and spending a one off charge on a reprint.

right now i am deving all my own film so can't really help you in terms of postal dev. but have heard that this is the cheapest.

for bulk film it might be worth checking out a place opposite jessops in the west end. go up some stairs (i think its above black and lizars?) and theres this big cupboard kind of place where you can get loads of stuff.

by **PeterG** » Mon May 16, 2005 4:24 pm

What I bet you didn't know is that if you feed the raw negatives into the front of that nice shiny mac mini of yours it'll process them and scan them in for you. Or break the CD drive.

by **bendover** » Mon May 16, 2005 4:25 pm

oh and also - asda are cheap as chips for digi developing, though low on quality. again i use them if i want some cheapo prints for my sketchbook at a low price, but not for important images.

not sure about their film prices.

by **harry** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:00 pm

i pick up envelopes for ultra cheap postal processing at airports. truprint and klick usually. but this is only for snaps not for serious photography so it's probably poor quality but maybe that's more about the camera, i don't know anything and have been using disposable ones. you can get a cd made pretty cheap which i've been doing. it basically costs 99p for prints plus £1.99 for a cd plus 45p postage. plus you get a free film plus lots of random gifts like little photo albums. if you want me to send you a spare envelope via carrier pigeon/ally i will. then you can see and try if you like what you see. then you will get sent envelopes by them for life.
i would prefer to own a digital camera, just incase santa is listening again.

by **Guest** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:24 pm

"deving", "postal dev", ya twat!

by **Guest** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:51 pm

surely Santa is havinf a rest after the hard work in the winter?!!

Mrs Santa

by **Guest** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:52 pm

oops Mrs Santa can't type or preview her posts!!

Mrs Santa

by **Crispy** » Mon May 16, 2005 7:01 pm

We used to use Max Spielman, until the local shop closed. Quality was OK, but you wouldn't want to send the wedding photos! Film was a good deal there too, but sadly they didn't do the "free film with processing" offer.

http://www.maxspielmann.com/corp_max/branches.jsp for branches

Truprint were always very competitive but again quality wasn't top notch. You pays your money and you takes your choice! :wink:

by **Tatty** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:24 pm

Postal firms such as Truprint are cheap. As Harry says you can often pick their envelopes up with cheap offers at airports/motorway services etc. Not to bad a print unless your after something serious.

by **brooner** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:26 pm

aye i've been getting about 5 films done + put on cd for about 17 or 18 quid a go with truprint. as people say, y'get what you pay for really.

by **bendover** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:52 am

Anonymous wrote:"deving", "postal dev", ya twat!

get fucked prick

by **knows** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:00 am

i'd avoid the temptation to get a part-time job at the kodak factory, cos even though you might end up getting free processing, the resulting temptation to take more and more films would almost certainly leave you with a huge backlog of unprocessed film in quite a short time, and several years later that would be horrible.

by **Nailest** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:40 am

That scenario sounds eerily familiar...

by **the duncan** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:38 am

yeah, how many random assorted films do you have lying around at the moment?

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