There are still 1 hour places prevalent here and one lab that does 120
C41 and E6, but only once a week. The other lab that did it in house
abruptly stopped when their machine broke and could not be repaired, and
I expect that might be ultimate end of local 120 developing at this lab
as well. Fortunately for the owner he has diversified into a field that
should be immune to changing technologies - he's running a couple of
successful pubs in addition to the film lab.
I do all the B&W myself, usually in Rodinal or HC100. I still have 3+
liters of Agfa Rodinal to work through!
Mark
On 7/20/2013 1:18 AM, Alan C wrote:
I'm amazed to hear that so many are still shooting a lot of film.
There are so few photo-labs left in SA now, in fact only in the big
cities & nothing in the platteland. If I shoot a film, I have to use
the postal service now - no more "1 hour service". I thought about
developing my own negs again but the idea passed after a couple of
beers. Yonks ago I used to buy long strips of 35mm B&W film from a
reporter friend of mine and manually load them into re-cycled
cannisters in his darkroom. I wound it in to the limit - usually about
50 exp. I thought the scratched negs were due to bad handling!
Alan C
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