my Costco store stopping C41 processing

AMBYSTOMA

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• Aug 10, 2010

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Just found out today that the Tallahassee, Fl. Costco will stop processing C41 35mm film due to low volume; apparently only about 560 rolls were processed in the last year.
I guess I will now have to go to one of the pharmacies for processing; I will miss the usually high quality of work I found at Costco but at least they still retain the capacity of doing prints from 35mm color negatives up to 11x14 using their RA4 processor and larger using a digital processor. I will continue to use my Jobo CPP2 to process all my other film from 21/4 to 8x10.

 

Sirius Glass

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• Aug 10, 2010

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Go to the Costco website and call any Costco near you and see if they still do the processing.

Steve

 

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• Aug 10, 2010

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Sorry to hear that news. I use costco for the price, but I've noticed my negs are horribly scratched...wonder if they need to clean the equipment and if I should say something. Their cd software is yuk.

 

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• Aug 10, 2010

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Much the same story here in Toronto, where only one Costco still processes film for a market of 5.5 million--and that's reportedly ending sometime next month. Cheap 35mm processing is virtually dead, with roll film on the endangered list as service slows and prices rise.

 

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• Aug 16, 2010

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Yep, surprised to hear that the local costco (both in the Raleigh/Durham area) don't process film anymore. Also stuck with CVS for budget developing. We have a pro lab nearby, but they're spendy for just snapshots...

 

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• Aug 16, 2010

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It is sad to see these places dissappearing. I will use all of my local places even CVS now and again just to give them some buissness all though it probably doesn't help. 560 rolls a year I guess must be low for minilab equipment. That's just say an average of 2 rolls a day. Maybe some days no rolls. I don't know about how tempermental minilabs are but it must be a problem keeping them for that kind of volume.