RE: Places to get slide film developed (was RE: [APML] Number of APMLmembers?)

["Lane, Jason R" <jason.lane@navy.mil>]

Hi Dean,

Yes, it's a good test of patience but I've just gotten used to dropping it off after the monthly new moon shooting season has closed.  That or using print films.  Hence the reason I'm putting a darkroom together.  :)

I've taken film with me when we visit my in-laws down in San Diego and dropped them off at some of the better one-hour photo stores down there (one of them is in Little Italy), but their quality didn't impress me at all.  And Wal-Mart processing costs like $4.  It's great if you're willing to wait.

Cheers,
Jason

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Subject: Re: Places to get slide film developed (was RE: [APML] Number
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A week and a half to get slide film back?!!!  I guess I'm spoiled living
in the big city (Tucson).  Normal turnaround at Photographic Works is 3
hours - I drop it off on the way to work and pick it up at lunch... 
Normally about $8/roll with push processing.

-Dean

> Hi Michael,
>
> Welcome to APML!  Glad to see another fellow LX90 user trying out film
> astrophotography.
>
> I'm in the same boat as you in that no one locally processes slide film.
> Surprisingly enough, I started taking my slide film to Wal-Mart and I've
> found their quality is consistently excellent.  I was told to make special
> mention of it by printing "SLIDE FILM" on the envelope when I drop it off.
>  They send it off and it takes about 1 to 1 1/2 weeks to come back.
> That's still quite a while to wait, so my wife and I are putting together
> a dark room (slowly).  But in the meantime, Wal-Mart works great.  They
> are also the cheapest around.  Definitely best bang for your buck.  If you
> don't have a local Wal-Mart, then you can buy mailers online from places
> like B&H Photo and send them off to be developed that way.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jason
>
>

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