I bought an adapter from B&H for $49 and have been using my old Minolta-Rokkor lenses on my Canon DSLR with great results. I researched these adaptors and decided that the one built by FotodioX with correction lens was best. No noticeable degradation in image quality, and no focus issues what so ever . The only limitation is that you can only shoot in manual or Aperature priority mode which is fine with me because those are the only modes that I usually shoot in . I wasn't going to give up all the light that my f1.2, 1.4 and 1.7 lenses offers me. To buy lenses new at these f-stops and of this quality would be VERY expensive ! I'd stack the old Rokkors and Nikkors up to anything out there, especially considering the fact that Minolta built many lenses for Leica with Minolta glass . These old lenses are of high quality and well worth $49 for an adaptor to be able to still use them. Give this adapter a try !

I got a new (to me) Nikon F3 HP last week and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens this week. Thursday I loaded up a roll of film & took a bunch of casual snapshots around the yard just to test the new combo out. Friday I gave the roll of film to my 19 year old son to have it processed at the Walmart 1 hour photo lab after work (in our nearest "big city", Big Rapids MI, pop 10,600, 25 miles away).

He called me after work & informed me Walmart no longer had a 1 hour photo lab. I told him to try Walgreens and Meijers. A little later he called back, no one there does 1 hour photo processing anymore.

The last time I needed 1 hour photo processing, a couple of years ago, Walmart, Walgreens and Meijers all offered it. Today, nobody? The change must have been fairly recent as Meijers still had the 1 hour photo processing signage in place but they no longer offer the service, all film has to be sent out and has a 2 week turnaround time.

Now I understand film processing is way down in this digital age, but I thought it had pretty well leveled out or perhaps was even seeing a mild resurgence, so why did all three vendors in one area discontinue in house processing in such a relatively short time frame? If the answer is lack of demand I would have expected that after the first two discontinued the service there would still be enough remaining business to keep the third vendor going.

Is there something else in play here? I seem to vaguely recall from a couple of years ago that the EPA was going to issue some new regulations on waste photo chemical disposal due to the silver content in the processing solutions. So is this demand driven, or did the EPA put 1 hour photo labs out of business?