Marinia del Rey Costco no longer develops any film.

[Sirius Glass]

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.

I am heartened to see that you have secured all that film from the hoarders. Keep up the good work.

 

[dktucson]

I am heartened to see that you have secured all that film from the hoarders. Keep up the good work.

LOL--you should see the amount of .22 ammo I have as well--hoarding of a different kind. I buy up old bulk stock and there is plenty more out there. I have 400ft of GAF Super Hypan film from the vietnam war era--looks real good in d76 1:1. 400ft of Recordak Dacomatic expired in 1973--in caffenol it looks fantastic. 100ft of AutoPositive B&W ISO 1 microfilm. Nice if you want 7secs at f5.6 in morning light to get an exposre--thats like abe lincoln stuff. 1000ft of Visions 500T remjet ecn II process vintage 1995, 1300ft of visions 50d vintage 2009 and 400ft of Fuji Eterna (fresh) , another 1000ft roll of SO-420 ISO 1 intermediate film--uber low speed color. Plus some 100ft rolls of Ilford PanF+ and Ultrafine 100

 

[wiltw]

Costco not processing C-41 in certain stores is not really 'news', in the sense that diminished shooting of film has turned that into a economic move driven by the cost of labor overhead to man the equipment and the overhead cost of chemical and processing stability tests vs. a certain volume of production processing needed.

OTOH, Costco is also removing the ability to send electronic files to all stores to print and pick up on the same day! Now more and more Costco's might offer printing services, but they are really done at a different location and shipped to the originating store for pickup days later. If you want 'same day' service you MUST go to the store with the printer still housed in it. THAT is 'news'.

I know that APUG is 'analog', but photography is photography, and when a photographer cannot obtain 'same day prints' like they used to, it matters...whether the source image is on film or on digital! It is probably indicative of the fact that probably 98% of digital photos never get printed, they stay inside smartphones! So chemical based printing -- even from digital files -- requires volume to maintain machines and staffing, and even with digital capture the volume is insufficient for stores to maintain even printers, much less maintain C-41 processing and E-6 processing.

 

[Sirius Glass]

We can still bitch about it.