Marinia del Rey Costco no longer develops any film. They removed the film processor about two months ago. I took the film to Samy in Culver City.
Marinia del Rey Costco no longer develops any film.
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Damn!
This weekend I discovered that my local Walmart in Rancho Santa Margarita no longer carries film.
Lifes hard and then you die.
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My closest Costco also stopped developing C-41. They say there is still one left in the area that does. At the prices they charged, it had to be a loss leader. Would rather pay more and still have it.
San Diego Costco shut it all down as well.
The Woodinville, WA Costco shut down their film processing a few years ago. Then again, Kenmore Camera is only about 6-7 miles away, so, probably weren't getting enough business to make it worthwhile.
1.90 for development of 36. 10 cents per print and 3 dollars for a cd. Was always 5 dollars for me. Now it's 11 and I've cut down on shooting.
It would be nice for them to have 1 machine for the region at least. I wouldn't mind a slight price and/or time increase. I wrote a letter to corporate about that. Haven't received a response.
I'm thankful that the inexpensive and decent quality Costco in-house processing lasted this long!
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I am taking photographs with 135mm Hektor in my mind , develop , print can still imagine what the final print looks like. Our photo lab donated everything and there is no photolab around. Mind power.
Willow photo lab on eBay seems to have about the same price per roll for dev + CDs. I'm going to try it out.
I used to live in OC and worked for Noritsu. Costco was a major account but they put a lot of mom & pop shops out of business unless the smaller places did portraits etc--so now there are fewer c41 machines going. I remember they used to have 6 people in the lab doing 400 rolls a day--now it's one person on a used 30-series wet chemical laser machine and no neg carrier in sight. I live in Tucson Az now, it's a much smaller market and I just process my own film in a tank & reel. Unicolor C41 kit is about $20 and will process more than the 8 rolls stated by the maker (I know guys getting 30 or more rolls out of a batch)
I don't want to take over this conversation but I have a couple questions about the unicolor kit. Is there an advantage to the unicolor kit vs a liquid kit?
Someone also mentioned Kodak Final Rinse, will that work with E-6 as well as C-41?
Someone also mentioned Kodak Final Rinse, will that work with E-6 as well as C-41?
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When I have enough film I will use the Unicolor kit. I have had very good results with it.
The advantages are: powdered chems kept sealed last a helluva long time. They cost less to ship as liquid chems are normally labeled corrosive/hazardous. They take up less storage room as well.
I recently took stock of my freezer--5,250ft of assorted bulk films in 35mm and not counting the 120. Doing the math :5250ft=1,600,200 mm of film (12 inches to the foot and 25.4mm to the inch). Each 35mm frame is 38mm in length allowing for a 2mm margin between frames. 1,600,200 /38=42,110 frames. Figuring 27 frames for a 24exp roll plus some leader fogging =1559 rolls of film. If I shoot a roll a week I will run out of film in 30 years
.In 1978-81 I worked at Fotomats main roll lab in Fountain Valley Calif and that much film was an hours workload.
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