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Hi DD , develop yourself (color or b&w) , it's easy for b&w as color (only temperature constraint)
otherwise easy too
and work well done :) no scratch 

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/205842-i-like-filmopen-thread/?p=2911891

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/205842-i-like-filmopen-thread/?p=2911906

Good photos and bravo for your "dig out" , you're right , color film and black-grey of film are inimitable :)

Best

Henry

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Sounds like you might have to mail which is fine I used to buy Kodak slides with the prepaid mailer. Lots of choices throughout the US. I live in NYC and use Colorhouse and they do mail order. Also the Film Project in NJ and there others in the city. Some members on the forum are in LA and there are a few there as well

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My own view is that, for about the same price of a Leica camera (i.e. affordably for most of us here) one can and should buy a home-processing machine and become a self-sufficient developer of colour, b&w, even slides:

 

http://www.jobo-usa.com/jobo-analog-products/jobo-cpp3-processor

 

You thereby put yourself in complete control of your results, from beginning to end.  Running costs (i.e. chemicals) are also significantly lower than the costs of lab development.

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Has anyone else used the Ilford lab in California for B&W? I've sent them several rolls of film for processing and printing. The development and the scans seem fine, but the prints are not good in my opinion, with disappointing tonal ranges, for examples light grays (and they are grays in the scans) appearing as white in the prints.

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Until recently I've shot digital.  Richardsphotolabs in California has printed most of my work and they are quite good.  As for film, I've developed my own b&w. Frustrated w my results I recently shipped a roll to Richard's for developing and scanning. They did a great job.  Expensive though: $23 for developing, scanning, and shipping.  I need get better at developing my own or I'll go broke.  :)    

 

Matt from Las Vegas.   

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Has anyone else used the Ilford lab in California for B&W? I've sent them several rolls of film for processing and printing. The development and the scans seem fine, but the prints are not good in my opinion, with disappointing tonal ranges, for examples light grays (and they are grays in the scans) appearing as white in the prints.

 

I haven't used them.  For b&w I've used digitalsilver.  The prints I get from them are well done w nice tonal ranges.   Pricey, though.  For a recent 16x24 print on fiber paper the cost was $158.  

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  • 3 weeks later...

Just downloaded images from 10 year old Tri X and processed by "The Darkroom " and shot with my M7.

Minor work in Lightroom and photos look good.  Nothing worth sharing and there is a relearning curve.

I definitely am back to film while continuing to use M8 and little Leica C.

Thanks for help

Dan

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Just downloaded images from 10 year old Tri X and processed by "The Darkroom " and shot with my M7.

Minor work in Lightroom and photos look good.  Nothing worth sharing and there is a relearning curve.

I definitely am back to film while continuing to use M8 and little Leica C.

Thanks for help

Dan

That's great!

 

Here is a list of other places that do film dev and scanning.

 

http://istillshootfilm.org/post/111177747637/where-to-get-film-developed-online

 

 

Bonus...Blue Moon Camera does actual enlargements from your negatives at a fairly reasonable price. One of the very few left.

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