Logan1949

I had Walgreen's print a 24x36 poster from a digital JPEG yesterday, $30. Then I had the same poster printed at Costco, $15, in both auto-corrected and not auto-corrected. The Costco Auto-corrected version looked identical to the Walgreen's version in color tint, paper weight, and quality. The 'auto-corrected OFF' version by Costco had slightly less red to the color, but the color difference was only slightly noticeable. I preferred the 'auto-corrected OFF' version by Costco.
Note: I prefer the heavier weight paper and the semi-gloss finish from either Costco and Walgreen's to the matte finish and lighter weight paper of shortrunposters.com, $14 plus shipping, plus $5 if shipped flat. Both Walgreen's and Costco roll up the poster to about 4 inches for pickup.
Note: I have had a bad print from Walgreen's before (dark areas streaked with lighter lines, and I refused the print), so it depends on when they last cleaned the print heads, and maybe on who is running the print as to the quality you will get. With Walgreen's I pay after reviewing the print; with Costco you pay before they print it.

Hedge neighbor

The question I have about 1 hour printing in any store is the LONG TERM quality. I just started using a service that provides prints made with the true photography Silver Halide process. I assume that those prints should last a long time. Has anyone seen any studies on how long the prints from the 1 hour labs should last?

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

What’s “digital film”? 🤔

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

The film and negatives are your property per both statute and case law. Unless they have something in fine print that surrenders your property rights, the must return your negatives. If the fail to do so, I would sue them in small claims court on principle. However, there is probably something in the fine print that limits their financial responsibility to replacing your negatives with the value of an unexposed role of film. That being said, I would never let a drug store process my film. That is what a professional photo lab is for.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Yes, the Walgreen's clerk informed me that only one store in their district does the processing, and all the other stores within the district send customer's film to that one store with the processing machine. I believe you are correct, the negatives are scanned and sent back to the original store electronically, then printed in store from the digital files. Although in the conversation the clerk did not mention how images were sent back, I came to the same conclusion, as this seems the only logical explanation why the negatives cannot be returned to the customer.

Diamond41 Loc: St. Louis, MO

Walgreens stopped processing film instore at least two years ago, maybe more. Long ago they use to process through their own lab in Deerfield, IL. But time became a factor for them so the moved everything to local labs. Then the big thing became to process/print film in store which meant the customer got the film even faster. Now every store has a digital printer to process digital prints. If you have film, they can get it developed but it will be 7-10 days before it comes back and you get a cd disk and prints, no negatives (this was my experience).

If you want prints from a negative, I was told 7-10 days minimum, absolutely no returns, and only for prints larger than 5x7. Was actually told to go to a Camera Store nearby to get prints from negs. I will probably get everything processed there also when ready.

Walgreens will gladly transfer all negs to cd disk but was told you may not get the negs back with your cds which is a big turnoff.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Wallgreen’s still exists? That is good to know. And it is also goo to know you’re store is doing well in the film business. I met a young woman on Independence Pass, Co, the other day. She had a Minolta film camera hanging around her neck. That was good to see, a young person shooting film.

Novicus Loc: north and east

I see mostly young people who shoot film , those camera s cost a good deal less and when taking a photo just now and then , why not...

I have a Bessa L with a Heliar 15mm f4.5 on it , I have been 5 1/2 month in the Far East and shot 1 1/2 roll ( about 52 exposures ) with it , it has a very Large view and therefore only suitable for few subjects , the first roll has been developed and I do have , Negs.,prints and CD.

Brand new the Bessa L including the Heliar 15 f4.5 is half the price of the Nikkor 14 mm and is a " Better " lens, it is also a very small package, and Always comes along.

The D3S with Nikkor 20 f2,8 ....PC Nikkor 28 f3.5....55 f1.2 ...tc201 , fired over 1700 pics.

So film still has it s use...and is selling more and more..and it seems to be trendy to shoot film.