Cheapest place to develop film? (Dublin)

djgaillimh

I know there have been a couple of threads on this, but most of them are inconclusive and others are outdated.

So... does anybody currently know of any place in Dublin (city centre and surrounding area, preferably) that offers a good deal on developing and scanning to CD?

Gunn's are great, obviously, but the price is a little bit steep.

Home development is not an option right now.

djgaillimh

Anybody? Bueller?

Would especially be interested in places that have deals on developing multiple rolls...

okmqaz42

If i have a lot of colour rolls to develop I bring them to a Unicare pharmacy in Northside shopping centre. I am averaging about 1.5 - 2 euro a roll developed and scanned to CD.

djgaillimh

Wow, bargain.

Is the quality ok? Not seeing any scratches or other issues?

okmqaz42

Never had an issue with quality. The file sizes are ok but when I scan stuff myself I tend to scan bigger.

Pretty sure everything it this set was developed by them

http://www.flickr.com/photos/okmqaz42/sets/72157628355517923/

I tend to get about five rolls done at a time and you should always ask the price before hand. There was a different person working one day and there was talk of 5 euros a roll !!

djgaillimh

Nice. I'll venture north of the liffey when I have a few more rolls finished.

Must try that Ektar film next. Love the colour saturation. Great shots too.

AnCatDubh

Is that the spot out in artane? Humberklog had a boards ie deal negotiated at one stage with a pharmacy out there. Can't recall the detail. But it was very good value. Sounds similar

djgaillimh

Btw, did you shoot that at box-speeds or have you over-exposed them?

Just reading about Ektar and some people are saying you get very vibrant colours if you over-expose by a stop.

thefizz

djgaillimh wrote: »

Btw, did you shoot that at box-speeds or have you over-exposed them?

Just reading about Ektar and some people are saying you get very vibrant colours if you over-expose by a stop.

Ektar is vibrant at box speed anyway, almost like a transparency film.

okmqaz42

@ancatdubh, nope it is Northside SC not Artane but weirdly enough I went to Northside looking for a man named Dave that would do a deal on C41 processing having half read Humberklogs post a long time ago. I have since come to the conclusion that all people that work in photo Labs are called Dave.

@djgaillimh All shot at box speed, it is a pretty wild film. It loves a bit of sunlight. You should have a look at @theFizz's online shop. He has kits for processing at home, this might be something you want to explore in the future.

Effects

The fuji desk in Unicare Artane is gone now but you can still leave stuff with John and he sends it down to northside. 5 rolls dev and cd for €15. Be sure they know what you are talking about as a lot of them think that developing means making prints.

djgaillimh

Effects - Thanks for the tip. Although if I'm coming all the way in from D2 then I may as well go the extra mile and visit the Northside SC.

okmqaz42 - will do, but I suspect it'll be way off in the future, if at all. Thanks for the help.

aidanic

You should have a look at @theFizz's online shop. He has kits for processing at home, this might be something you want to explore in the future

OP - you should consider processing at home...



Monday night - 16 rolls in the Tetenal C41 1L kit - cost €19, and I'm pretty sure there's a few more rolls in the chems yet. Took about 3 hours, running multiple tanks, but only one tank at a time.

Scanning is another matter...

C41 at home is as easy as black and white.

djgaillimh

aidanic wrote: »

You should have a look at @theFizz';s online shop. He has kits for processing at home, this might be something you want to explore in the future

OP - you should consider processing at home...



Monday night - 16 rolls in the Tetenal C41 1L kit - cost €19, and I'm pretty sure there's a few more rolls in the chems yet. Took about 3 hours, running multiple tanks, but only one tank at a time.

Scanning is another matter...

C41 at home is as easy as black and white.

Like I said initially, it's not an option currently. I don't have either the time or the space to devote to it.

DaireQuinlan

aidanic wrote: »

OP - you should consider processing at home...



Monday night - 16 rolls in the Tetenal C41 1L kit - cost €19, and I'm pretty sure there's a few more rolls in the chems yet. Took about 3 hours, running multiple tanks, but only one tank at a time.

Scanning is another matter...

C41 at home is as easy as black and white.

I was trying to work out what some of those strips are. Did you shoot some of them in a medium format camera ?

aidanic

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

I was trying to work out what some of those strips are. Did you shoot some of them in a medium format camera ?

The 16 rolls date back to Christmas and a bit before - no quiet time to devote to a dev session until this week. It's all cheap (and nasty) 35mm - €1 per roll from German drugstores.

The "weird looking stuff" was taken on a Sprocket Rocket - I saw someone here post some pics, and they looked cool. I got one, and then discovered my all-in-one MFP had a really crap scanner. Need to get the V500!

Anyway, I was quite unsure of the winding mechanism on the Sprocket Rocket, and I've been skipping frames as a result. If I'd bothered to do a dev run earlier in the year, I'd have discovered my mistake. You live and learn. (To be discussed in the pub tonight with a friend).

We must be way off topic at this point.

Mr Galway - really C41 is easy at home. I took over the bath for about three hours on Monday night. You see the results. As mentioned on another thread, I use a small windowless cupboard to load the tanks. In the batchroom, I have a Woodies plastic box in the bath with water in it about 40 degress as my buffer and the source of my washing water, and a second one with water about 45 degress, where I keep the chemicals warm. It's no where near tightly controlled, +/- 2 or even 3 degress, and I get away with it. I use a Jessops colour thermometer I've had for a decade or so. Darkroom timer app on my Android phone.

OK I'll stop now

djgaillimh

aidanic wrote: »

OK I'll stop now

Yes, yes you will. :pac:

No, I hear you, and I do intend to start developing myself at some point, but like I said I don't have the time or space to devote to it right now. I don't really like surrendering control of the development process to somebody else, but for now I don't really have a choice.

You can expect a thread looking for advice on home development at some point in the future...

djgaillimh

By the way, I happen to have a roll of Portra 400 (120 format) lying around which I don't need. If anybody is interested in a swap, or knows of anybody who might be interested, send me a PM.

I'll swap for a 35mm Portra (any kind except NC).

vin_cent

okmqaz42 wrote: »

If i have a lot of colour rolls to develop I bring them to a Unicare pharmacy in Northside shopping centre. I am averaging about 1.5 - 2 euro a roll developed and scanned to CD.

Hi, i found this post because I am also looking for a cheap place to develop and scan films, I have just moved here in Dublin. I am asking in shops in the city centre but they are all quite expensive.

Is it still possible to develop and scan in this place in Northside, I am planning to go there these days. Would be great. Is someone still going there?

What happen if I go with only 2 films to scan? Is it still cheap?

Vincent

amdgilmore

Yes, it is. But i's not called Unicare anymore. Doc Marten Pharmacy or something.

Coolock is a bit of a trek though. They'll probably put two rolls on a cd for 5-10 euro.

I haven't been out there in a while, though, so I can't guarantee that the mysterious Dave is still doing his special offer.

vin_cent

amdgilmore wrote: »

Yes, it is. But i's not called Unicare anymore. Doc Marten Pharmacy or something.

Coolock is a bit of a trek though. They'll probably put two rolls on a cd for 5-10 euro.

I haven't been out there in a while, though, so I can't guarantee that the mysterious Dave is still doing his special offer.

Thank you for your answer. I've not checked yet how to go there from here D2. I'll see if it's better to wait and go with more films. Anyway i'll ask for the price before, in case mysterious Dave has changed his mind:)

Do they do also 120 films?

Thanks again

amdgilmore

vin_cent wrote: »

Thank you for your answer. I've not checked yet how to go there from here D2. I'll see if it's better to wait and go with more films. Anyway i'll ask for the price before, in case mysterious Dave has changed his mind:)

Do they do also 120 films?

Thanks again

You take the 27 or 27a from the quays, near the SIPTU tower.

I'm only just venturing into 120 myself so I don't know if they develop that. Let me know if they do though. Might come in useful.

Btw, keep in mind that they only develop c41 film in these pharmacy labs. If you're shooting anything else you'll have to take it elsewhere.

For medium format I was planning on shooting only in b&w and developing it at home.

Effects

The cheapest option is with 5 films on 1 cd. They don't do 120 but had talked about it. I doubt it will come through though. If you are calling to ask about it make sure to speak to either Dave or John.

vin_cent

Thank you very much for all these useful information amdgilmore and effects.
I'll write here again when I go there, I don't need now to develop 120 mm but I will in the next weeks. I will ask them if it's possible.

I've never tryed to develop by myself but it's a thing that I'd like to do one day. At home in italy I usually
develop in a lab for about 3 euro each roll (both 35 and 120) than I scan by myself with a flatbed scanner.
Anyway 5 films developed and scanned for 15 euro is really a good price, I hope is still possible.

I'll let you know.

Thank you again.

Effects

I used to dev my own colour but it was just easier to get it done in unicare/doc martens. These days I shoot a lot of 120 colour so it takes me longer to get 5 rolls of 35mm together. Some nice surprises of stuff I forget about when I get a roll back.

caol ila

I dropped in a roll of 35mm today at north side after seeing this post, John was there today, I got dev, scan and 7x5 prints done as I wanted to see what the quality was like. Cost me a tenner but as previous poster said if you can go in with five rolls, you get dev and scans for fifteen euro and that's hard to beat.
The scans aren't huge, open up to 6.5 meg in photoshop but they are fine. I will be back.

vin_cent

I went yesterday with 5 rolls. John was there, really nice person. He explained me a lot of things but unfortunately I couldn't get all because sometimes he was too fast for my level of english:) By the way he confirmed that they don't do 120 film anymore. so it's official.

Scans are ok for the use i do (web and flickr). The only problem is that only 3 of the films are scanned well. But this was my fault and not john's.

He couldn't scan a film that I put in my holga 120G (because of the photos that go also on the sprocket holes).

Another film wasn't scanned properly because the photos were smaller and not regular. It was a roll that i shot using a pinhole.

I think there's no way for me to scan this two kind of films till i will buy a flatbed scanner. That's a pity because I'm currently using these two cameras.

The only solution is to ask someone that has a scanner at home.

So if there's someone that usually do this kind of works (pinhole and sprocket hole photo) and would be so kind to help me can contact me here or at this address malevolia(at)hotmail(dot)com

thanks to all of you for the answers