CVS and film's coffin??

jimrohrer · Aug 2, 2015

Not that I've ever used it, but I was kind of surprised to read that CVS still offered one hour service. The dramatic headline grabbed my attention though...

http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/08/01/cvs-drives-another-nail-in-films-coffin/

fdonadio · Aug 2, 2015

Film's coffin has more to do with Quentin Tarantino (for example) quitting using it than drugstores stopping processing it.

And I agree with one of the interviewees: I never trusted one-hour labs to deliver the results I wanted, even though I was a lousier photographer than I am now (and still have a looooong way to go).

Flavio

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removed account4 · Aug 2, 2015

hi jim

none of the CVS' near me have processed film in while.
walgreens just removed all the film labs out of their stores too ..
neither offer mail-out service either. the last pharma ( in ri at least )
that will process film or send it out is rite aid ... not sure about other locals ..

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hi flavio

not sure QT is using D
he has been interviewed many times
over the years claiming D is a HUGE RIP OFF &C..
i may be wrong though ...

https://www.google.com/search?clien...n+tarantino+digital+vs+film&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

bvy · Aug 2, 2015

Stupid sensationalist headline. I can't wait to see the comments: "People still use film?! [snort, snort]."

Alan9940 · Aug 2, 2015

IMO worse than these outlets ending 1-hour processing (not that I've used this service for many, many years) is that I just read an article saying that you don't get your film back! According to this article, many of these outlets send your film off to a 3rd-party service that does the actual processing, and then destroys your film. All you get back are prints and a CD; I assume the CD contains low-res inferior scans of your negs!

The times they are a changin...

Best regards,
AlanH

GRHazelton · Aug 2, 2015

I tried our local CVS a few months ago. Turnaround wasn't a week, more like two! The young guy on the desk was sympathetic, but he couldn't do anything about it, in fact he had many single use cameras that needed processing, the cost discouraged him. WalMart still processes film...you get prints and a CD back? Negatives? You don't need no stinkin' negatives!

jimrohrer · Aug 2, 2015

No negatives? What are they thinking?

GRHazelton · Aug 2, 2015

jimrohrer said:
No negatives? What are they thinking?

Thinking?? We don' need no stinkin' thinkin'!!!!!!

removed account4 · Aug 2, 2015

Alan9940 said:
IMO worse than these outlets ending 1-hour processing (not that I've used this service for many, many years) is that I just read an article saying that you don't get your film back! According to this article, many of these outlets send your film off to a 3rd-party service that does the actual processing, and then destroys your film. All you get back are prints and a CD; I assume the CD contains low-res inferior scans of your negs!

The times they are a changin...

Best regards,
AlanH

alanH
it is fuji film that was / is the 3rd party processor.
i have spoken with both them and the folks they process / print for
and from what i understand it isn' t up to them ( although they both point fingers at eachother ) ...
they dont' send the negatives back because the drop off locations refuses
to pay the delivery charges to have the film and prints returned
so instead they send electronic files to the kiosk / store and they do dye sub prints
on location.

they are thinking, about their bottom line ...

film used to be picked up / delivered/sent by courier but a special trip to deliver 1 roll of processed negatives
and no film to pick up can add up the $$ especially if there is only 1 lab regionally for fuji that runs now
( i think buffalo ny is the only one left ) ...

i'd rather have a relationship with a local lab anyways ..

Alan9940 · Aug 2, 2015

jnanian said:
alanH
it is fuji film that was / is the 3rd party processor.

No idea who the 3rd party processor is/was; just something I read recently. Personally, I haven't used any sort of film lab for many years now. I shoot mostly B&W and some E-6, and process it myself in my Jobo.

Best regards,
AlanH

removed account4 · Aug 2, 2015

Alan9940 said:
No idea who the 3rd party processor is/was; just something I read recently. Personally, I haven't used any sort of film lab for many years now. I shoot mostly B&W and some E-6, and process it myself in my Jobo.

Best regards,
AlanH

i only know what the situation was because
we used sam's club for year to process our
5 roll a week habit .... and they used to also
send out my movie film ... so i dug deep to
find out from fuji what was going on ..

your plan is a good one. self reliance is good.
i'm not as good as you. if i want color i bring it to someone
i trust locally. and if she can't process it, i shrug my shoulders
and dunk it in dektol and coffee and turn it into dense b/w negatives.

Sirius Glass · Aug 2, 2015

No negatives means that they scan the films, give you the disk, trash the negatives and give you the finger like Walgreen's did before.

pentaxuser · Aug 2, 2015

GRHazelton said:
Thinking?? We don' need no stinkin' thinkin'!!!!!!

GR, I have always had great faith in your knowledge and approach since you wrote the article about turning a 220 Pentax 645N insert into a 120. Now I can extend that faith into your comedic and apposite quips as well.

Sunday evening just got brighter

pentaxuser

Tamara · Aug 2, 2015

While the headline is sensational, I see nothing in the following quote to argue with:

...another moment in the passing of film photography to a niche hobby.

I am having to deal with film as a niche hobby, now. Then again, so is horseback riding. It used to be something people had to do, and now it's generally only practiced for enjoyment.

fdonadio · Aug 2, 2015

jnanian said:
hi flavio

not sure QT is using D
he has been interviewed many times
over the years claiming D is a HUGE RIP OFF &C..
i may be wrong though ...

jnanian,

I said that because I know Quentin is a big supporter of film. I meant something like "if Quentin quits using film, THAT's a nail in film's coffin".

But I intend on using film even after Kodak and Fuji stop selling film. I'll have to shoot only black and white after that, though!

Flavio

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AgX · Aug 2, 2015

"film's coffin"

at once made me think of the master-roll containers Harman use...

removed account4 · Aug 2, 2015

fdonadio said:
jnanian,

I said that because I know Quentin is a big supporter of film. I meant something like "if Quentin quits using film, THAT's a nail in film's coffin".

But I intend on using film even after Kodak and Fuji stop selling film. I'll have to shoot only black and white after that, though!

Flavio

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ahh
sorry for my confusion !

john

fdonadio · Aug 3, 2015

No problem, John... I am the master of confusion!

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DREW WILEY · Sep 10, 2015

Just taking your film to a one-hour lab has been equivalent to an image coffin all along, if you cared about how the prints came out and how quickly they'd fade. So what has changed? Things will still stink, regardless of the corpse involved.

cmacd123 · Sep 10, 2015

DREW WILEY said:
Just taking your film to a one-hour lab has been equivalent to an image coffin all along, if you cared about how the prints came out and how quickly they'd fade. So what has changed? Things will still stink, regardless of the corpse involved.

Some one hour labs were very good - many were terrible. a one hour lab run by competent folks should be able to churn out prints every bit as good as a big lab.

when Konica came out with their washerless labs they claimed that the results of prints developed with "Super Stabilizer" were every bit as stable as conventional prints. Many labs did not go to the washer-less format.

Sirius Glass · Sep 10, 2015

DREW WILEY said:
Just taking your film to a one-hour lab has been equivalent to an image coffin all along, if you cared about how the prints came out and how quickly they'd fade. So what has changed? Things will still stink, regardless of the corpse involved.

I never had a problem with one hour processing prints fading. Maybe I do not have enough experience to be qualified to discuss this since I have only been using such services for decades.

Ektagraphic · Sep 10, 2015

I wouldn't be too upset by this if the alternative was not a service where the negatives are NOT returned...

GRHazelton · Sep 10, 2015

pentaxuser said:
GR, I have always had great faith in your knowledge and approach since you wrote the article about turning a 220 Pentax 645N insert into a 120. Now I can extend that faith into your comedic and apposite quips as well.

Sunday evening just got brighter

pentaxuser

Ah, you are too kind! I did not originate the transformative process for rendering a 220 insert into a 120, but I appreciate your touching faith in my abilities. And now I have comedic gifts! Life is good.

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