AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

My Costco quit doing film some years back. It was a pity, too, as they did a bang-up business with film. But corporate overruled them, as some of the stores didn't do much.

ssymeono Loc: St. Louis, Missouri

Ken's comment was pre-Covid 19, I wonder if some stores are still open.

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

National Photo in Baltimore (Pikesville) Maryland....very fast and reasonable.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I ran a mass portrait scanning department from 2000 to 2005. We had nine $50,000 Kodak Bremson HR500 and HR500+ scanners. We cleaned long roll unperforated film (35mm, 46mm, and 70mm widths) with tacky rollers from 3M. The HR500+ scanners had Digital ICE on them. Those got used for carded, cut negatives and short roll films.

We had the most dust issues with individual, "carded" negatives in standard mask sizes A-F. 35mm perforated film and 120/220 film were next. 46mm and half frame 70mm films were the cleanest. But we had our share of dust spotting to do in Photoshop.

Dust is a problem at ALL film labs. You may find some labs cleaner than others, but never expect a spotless scan order. You couldn't afford it if they examined and spotted every frame! You would not like the turnaround time, either. Now if they print larger than a proof, that's a different story!

rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

Here's my list of processors, attached:

Attached file:
(Download)

smussler Loc: Land O Lakes, FL - Formerly Miller Place, NY

I just googled: "FILM PROCESSING UGLYHEDGEHOG"
One of the results yielded this link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L044hkWduiQf4WsUeH6Mndf3pyF2O_2rB3mMvPuZrq4/edit#gid=0

That the list?

adm

I still shoot film, black and white and color print and slide, 35mm and 120 formats. I do my own black and white. I bring color print film to a local lab in Albuquerque, NM called Picture Perfect. The slide film I send to Denver Digital Imaging Center, which, contrary to what the name suggests, offers film services, including E-6 processing.

tdoumas Loc: Buena Vista, CO

Hi,

I shoot BW, 120 format and develop and print myself. I enjoy trying out different developers and learning their strengths and weaknesses. My overall process and artistic control benefits from developing myself. If you treat it like a science fair project you can have a lot of fun and make pictures that satisfy.

ssymeono Loc: St. Louis, Missouri

As a fellow Greek, I appreciate the science behind shooting and developing your own large format film and wish I had the time to do it. My favorite camera was and still is the Linhof 617 panoramic with its incredible clarity and file size of up to 1.5 billion MP.