Hi! That is an unfortunate truth about scanning. You either buy your own scanner or give up your own development. Did you propose to your local lab to pay development "surcharge"? They would save on chemicals...
Dmitry On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Kenton Brede <kbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I decided a few weeks ago to give film a try. I bought a couple > old Pentax cameras and started shooting. Locally we have a camera > shop that will develop black and white film and scan to disk. So I > shot a few rolls and really liked the process of shooting a manual > film camera. So I thought I'd go a little deeper and start developing > the negatives and have the same shop scan them for me. So I worked > with the owner and bought all the chemicals. I mixed the D-76 and > Fixer last night in preparation of developing three rolls tonight. So > I called them this morning and asked what the price would be to scan > three rolls. This is the breakdown: > > Prices for them to develop one roll of B&W and scan to disk. > > $5.25 developing fee, $3.99 for the scan to CD = $9.24 > > Prices for them to scan my negatives, 36 frames. > > 69 cents per image, $3.99 for CD = $28.83 > > I asked why they were charging so much more for doing less work, and > the answer was, after consulting management, "We give a price break on > the scanning, if you develop your film here." > > Needless to say, I won't be developing my negatives tonight. > > Anyway, just a rant. Sorry it was so long. I know there are cheaper > scanning alternatives online. I really didn't want to purchase a > scanner right away. I wanted to wait to make sure I was going to > stick with film, before buying a scanner. But at those prices it > wouldn't take long for the scanner to pay for itself. > > -- > Kent Brede > http://kentonbrede.com/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- //DG LOC(NJ) //* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
