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Just curious about this. Are you using local labs or mailorder labs? In NZ they are very expensive for slide film so I have been using USA labs for some years now and just freeze them exposed film and send to them to the USA each year or two. I'm an extreme case but like to know what you guys do. Are they anyone who used overseas labs? I know when Kodachrome was down to the last lab in the world many people around the world sent them like that right but any people like this now still?

 

 

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I support my local lab with roll E-6 and C-41.

 

Black and white in all formats and sheet E-6 gets done at home. Sometimes I do 120 E-6 at home also-it depends on what I need to milk the most I can out of my chemistry.

 

I do occasionally send of to Dwayne's(usually through Wal-Mart) for E-6, but that's the exception rather than the rule. Considering postage and all, it's hard to beat $4.50 locally for C-41.

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I've enjoyed learning how to process my own film. I'll keep processing my own B&W for sure because there are chemicals with good shelf life available relatively inexpensively. I've been looking into different options for color. The press kits aren't that expensive but the shelf life isn't great so unless you either shoot fairly regularly or just wait until you have a bunch to process, you risk wasting it. So aside from medium format, I don't know how much color film I'll be shooting in the future. Another 12 months will probably tell the tale.

 

There's a local lab that I've used in the past and was happy with the results, so I could always go that route to get my occasional color film fix.

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I'm using localized labs for color. - Cewe will deliver prints to be picked up at a nearby drugstore and I think I can still channel film to them for processing and printing that way? I used the processing mailers for Kodachrome & E6 film in the past. B&W film is only fun in one's own darkroom. Having it hand printed by somebody more skilled would be too expensive.

I live next door from a large format inkjet-printshop and hope to try them out some day. I wouldn't trust any of the prepress folks at work, to get my pictures perfect. - If I was trying to do RA4 at home, I'd appreciate critique from my boss or co-pressmen.

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