CVS film developing?

[mikecnichols]

As others have stated, it depends on the staff. Where I am the local drug stores offering in house C-41 service are CVS and Rite-Aid, and Rite-Aid does send out E-6 (and other films like 120 but I don't use that service). They do a good job, and I have only found a mark on my print once, whatever it was I was able to just rewash the strip of film and Photo Flow it and it was fine.

The girls at Rite-Aid have done hundreds of rolls of film for me and that was the one time that I had a problem, that wasn't my fault, I once had them process a roll of film that I didn't expose so I can't blame them for that. I will admit that when I see new staff behind the photo counter i get a little scared, but they do fine.

That's how I get at Walmart when I bring in my already processed film for CD scan...LOL! It makes me feel more confident and happier that I process my own film now!

 

[terryw]

I have had pretty good success with Costco. You might try that if yours has a film processor (some don't). I, too, get my film scanned. One thing that I really like about my Costco is that they will scan B&W (or previously processed color negs) and put them on CD for me. If I put several roles in the same envelope then they will put them all on one CD and it only costs me the price of one scanned set of images or basically the cost of one CD (last time was ~120 exposures on one CD for about US$3.00). They are usually about 1.5 MB scans. That is great because everywhere else creates one CD per roll. So, in this case, that would be 4X the price. I have had good success with C-41 when they have done that for me as well.

 

[mikecnichols]

I have had pretty good success with Costco. You might try that if yours has a film processor (some don't). I, too, get my film scanned. One thing that I really like about my Costco is that they will scan B&W (or previously processed color negs) and put them on CD for me. If I put several roles in the same envelope then they will put them all on one CD and it only costs me the price of one scanned set of images or basically the cost of one CD (last time was ~120 exposures on one CD for about US$3.00). They are usually about 1.5 MB scans. That is great because everywhere else creates one CD per roll. So, in this case, that would be 4X the price. I have had good success with C-41 when they have done that for me as well.

That's what I've been doing with Walmart lately....I develop two rolls at a time at home and then go have them scan them to one CD for $3. I am not as big of a fan of the Fuji scans as the Noritsu, but they work too.

 

[zsas]

Price Check Alert: the CVS near me has C-41 process only for $2.19!!


I have had 6 or so color neg rolls done there and had have great experience! They use Kodak chems.

 

[BardParker]

My local 24 hr Walgreens is OK. They use Kodak chems which they change out regularly. Develop + scan + 1 set prints was about $12 for 36 exposure and $1 off online coupon. They don't do any color corrections. Still, I have gotten much better developing and scans from NCPS and Precision Camera mail order.

Kent

 

[BrendanCarlson]

My local cvs and walgreens are both pretty good processing quality.

 

[htmlguru4242]

The CVS by me is great ... they'll also cross-process pretty much anything, so long as it fits into the machine ..

 

[zsas]

The CVS by me is great ... they'll also cross-process pretty much anything, so long as it fits into the machine ..

Mine too, $2.19 a roll!! They tell me that it might mess up the colors when I crossprocess and I grin and say, "I don't mind". They tell me that they are not responsible for defects, etc....I giggle..he