A buck a frame if you shoot film? (Page 2): I just had a 35mm roll of 36 exp developed and scanned for a total cost of $28.75 which included shipping. It took 8 days from me sending it...

dwmoar Loc: Oregon, Willamette Valley

I just had a 35mm roll of 36 exp developed and scanned for a total cost of $28.75 which included shipping. It took 8 days from me sending it to receiving the scanned images back. That makes each scanned image about 80 cents in cost.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

dwmoar wrote:

I just had a 35mm roll of 36 exp developed and scanned for a total cost of $28.75 which included shipping. It took 8 days from me sending it to receiving the scanned images back. That makes each scanned image about 80 cents in cost.

Not sure if that was B&W or color, but if B&W you could have bought everything needed to develop (except the scanner of course) for less than $28 and would have taken just a few minutes to develop and an hour or two to dry. Then a couple of minutes to scan.Color chemicals are a little more expensive and shorter lived, so you’d want to save up a number of rolls and then do them all at once. Just an idea.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

burkphoto wrote:

Become? Mine are already in a glass case.

My F100 is sitting beside me, loaded with a roll of Ektar100, as I sit outside typing this, on this beautiful fall SoCal day, enjoying the changing light as the sun settles.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

dwmoar wrote:

I just had a 35mm roll of 36 exp developed and scanned for a total cost of $28.75 which included shipping. It took 8 days from me sending it to receiving the scanned images back. That makes each scanned image about 80 cents in cost.

Films that can be had in bulk rolls of 50' to 100' save oodles of cash. In high school, I bought a loader and snap cap 135 cassettes, and bought Tri-X by the 100' can. Later, as a pro, I still did that with Kodalith and five different types of Ektachrome, plus Ilford HP5 and Kodak T-Max 100.

B&W takes a half hour or less to soup, if your chemicals are pre-mixed. Dry time depends on the climate.

C41 and E6 are available in kits. If you have a sous vide, which is a tempering device used in cooking, you can control temperatures of a water bath (to temper your chemical bottles and developing tank) well enough for color.

An EPSON V-600 scanner is about a $230 purchase...

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

JD750 wrote:

My F100 is sitting beside me, loaded with a roll of Ektar100, as I sit outside typing this, on this beautiful fall SoCal day, enjoying the changing light as the sun settles.

Sounds like fun. I've got my Lumix GH4 with me on vacation for the next week. It'll get a workout.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

burkphoto wrote:

Sounds like fun. I've got my Lumix GH4 with me on vacation for the next week. It'll get a workout.

Oh I LOVE my OM-D. It is my GOTO travel, adventure, and carry all the time with me camera. But my other cameras were getting jealous so tonight its’s the F100. And my Nikon Z is really pissed. I have barely touched it in two months.

On my recent mini vacation to Lake Arrrowhead, (CA) I took my F100 along with my OM-D and I used the OM-D most of the time, we did a lot of hiking. But I was also very happy with the portraits I got with the F100 back at the cabin and at the Octoberfest celebration.

(I know you are laughing and you should be. ).

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Since the advent of digital, my film photography has been strictly black and white only.

It costs me approximately $0.15 per exposure to shoot and process black and white 35mm film.

In doing this cost analysis, I'm only considering consumables, film, developer, and fixer.
--Bob

therwol wrote:

I will provide a link in a second post so this doesn't get moved to the Links and Resources section. (Always happens if you include a link in your initial post.)

dwmoar Loc: Oregon, Willamette Valley

TriX wrote:

Not sure if that was B&W or color, but if B&W you could have bought everything needed to develop (except the scanner of course) for less than $28 and would have taken just a few minutes to develop and an hour or two to dry. Then a couple of minutes to scan.Color chemicals are a little more expensive and shorter lived, so you’d want to save up a number of rolls and then do them all at once. Just an idea.

It was fujifilm color fwiw. I really have no desire to learn to develop film, nor do I have the space or time. It is way more simpler to job it out.

therwol Loc: USA

burkphoto wrote:

Films that can be had in bulk rolls of 50' to 100'... (show quote)

I did some E4 processing when I was still in high school. What a stinky mess. I used a water bath to control the temperature of all of the solutions and used an aquarium heater and manual agitation of the water to keep the temperature right. If that heater had fallen into the water, I would have probably been electrocuted.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

therwol wrote:

I did some E4 processing when I was still in high school. What a stinky mess. I used a water bath to control the temperature of all of the solutions and used an aquarium heater and manual agitation of the water to keep the temperature right. If that heater had fallen into the water, I would have probably been electrocuted.

An easy water bath complete with temperature control and agitation is a sous vide cooker in the container of your choosing, and after you finish your developing, you can cook your meal with the same useful tool. Except for keeping a constant temperature, color is no harder than B&W - just a couple more chemicals.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

JD750 wrote:

Oh I LOVE my OM-D. It is my GOTO travel, adventur... (show quote)

Smiling, anyway. I’m slowly digitizing all my negs with the GH4.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

therwol wrote:

I did some E4 processing when I was still in high school. What a stinky mess. I used a water bath to control the temperature of all of the solutions and used an aquarium heater and manual agitation of the water to keep the temperature right. If that heater had fallen into the water, I would have probably been electrocuted.

E4 was nasty! E6 is much cleaner. It’s about a half hour process.