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I have just found a load of 35mm film which I assume have all been used as the film is all inside the cartridge...would love to get them developed to see who owns them or what is on them.....not sure if their age but I would guess around twenty years old...any ideas on an inexpensive online developer....don't want to be spending a fortune invade they are all duds......:)
 
Not all ASDAs do on-site processing, but it can be great, they will do a couple of films while you do your shopping, for £3 including scan onto CD. They do tend to over-sharpen their scans, which are quite low res at 1200 dpi, enough for 4*6" prints, but it's a service that's hard to beat. Max Spielman and Snappy Snaps on some High Streets are a bit pricier.

BTW all of the above are only for C41 (common colour negative) film, not slide/transparency or black and white film.

My favourite choice for quality 35mm C41 processing is Photo Express in Hull, £5 per film (less 50p per film if you quote your TP username) plus £1 for return postage for process and a nice 2000 dpi scan, much better than ASDA. They are currently averaging 2.9 days for me from posting to dropping on my door mat. Postage out costs an annoying £3.20, but you can send quite a few films for that, if you're careful with packing!

Look in the Film and Conventional sub-forum on here for more hints on processing black and white or slide film. However it can get quite a bit more expensive, specially scanning.
 
I've moved this over to the F&C section. though in fairness Chris pretty much covered things - but as always, there'll be a few more opinions/suggestions coming through I'm sure.
 
I guess the first thing to know is whether these are colour print, colour slide or black and white. Here's hoping they're colour (C41) for your wallet's sake.

Here's another idea... why not take them to your local 6th form college? If they do a photography A Level course they may well be prepared to let students develop them - it may even make an interesting project for them given the mystery of the contents (as long as there's nothing too personally embarrassing on there!) They may only be set up for black and white - but you can still get viewable results with colour film. Again an interesting project for them?
 
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I guess the first thing to know is whether these are colour print, colour slide or black and white. Here's hoping they're colour (C41) for your wallet's sake.

Here's another idea... why not take them to your local 6th form college? If they do a photography A Level course they may well be prepared to let students develop them - it may even make an interesting project for them given the mystery of the contents (as long as there's nothing too personally embarrassing on there!) They may only be set up for black and white - but you can still get viewable results with colour film. Again an interesting project for them?
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all C41....some go back to 1987.......I am not even sure if they are mine or someone elses...I found them in an old envelope ready to be sent to developer
 
I had some from 1993 done by Tesco and they came out OK. They used to be the cheapest option until they changed to Max Spielmann. Now Asda is at £2 per film and £1 for the CD.

I am always wary about getting films developed that I've found in cameras. You don't know what could be on it. People like to photograph the weirdest things, or themselves or other people doing the weirdest things.

I'd hate to walk into Tesco or Asda to pick up my photos and find all the staff giving me funny looks, or worse find the police wanting to ask me questions about my pictures. I guess that's where the home developers have the advantage.
 
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We should have challenge "show your best Asda shot" .......as for Asda low scans:- win explorer shows an image of 1822X1228 size how that relates to what the machine is set for scanning is a :confused: Anyway you can get a decent home A4 print from an Asda scan and most of joe public would be happy, and I'm happy to show proof for the doubters.
 
How about this

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What you can't see on this one is that the black bit just above the beak is a mark on the scan. It was on every frame of the three films I had developed that day in the top right corner. I had used three different lenses so the problem must have been with the scanner. Next time I went in everything was being serviced so I mentioned the marks and suggested they clean the scanner at the same time. My next ones were clean.
 
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Manwithacam said:
How about this

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What you can't see on this one is that the black bit just above the beak is a mark on the scan. It was on every frame of the three films I had developed that day in the top right corrner. I had used three different lenses so the problem must have been with the scanner. Next time I went in everything was being serviced so I mentioned the marks and suggested they clean the scanner at the same time. My next ones were clean.
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Well I could have removed the black marks in a few secs in Photoshop ;)
 
Manwithacam said:
Me too, but I shouldn't have to.
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True but for me I'm in the mindset of the old days when a wedding photographer would show proofs to the bride and groom and guests, take orders then you get the finished photograph later...so consider Asda jpg's as proofs then go from there. But for me, many Asda dev and scans are so good I don't bother rescanning unless I get a winner and of course the neg would be sent to a lab for a large print.
 
Having seen some negs from a well known high street place I would find a lab who runs a dip and dunk process. someone at the peak of their game.
 
I do consider them as proofs that's why I have them scanned to CD and back them up to OneDrive for easy access. I was saying that some of my scans from Asda had a black mark (three films). Next time I went in I asked them to check the scanner to make sure it was clean. No problem with those scans or the ones I had done yesterday. I would prefer it if their HiRes scans were of a higher resolution.

Before Tesco were taken over by Max Spielmann, the bloke there used to scan mine at 3818 x 2546 as opposed to Asda's 1840 x 1232. Now there are new staff and extra kiosks and by now film processing has probably been stopped since I last went in. They were talking about it.
 
Manwithacam said:
I do consider them as proofs that's why I have them scanned to CD and back them up to OneDrive for easy access. I was saying that some of my scans from Asda had a black mark (three films). Next time I went in I asked them to check the scanner to make sure it was clean. No problem with those scans or the ones I had done yesterday. I would prefer it if their HiRes scans were of a higher resolution.

Before Tesco were taken over by Max Spielmann, the bloke there used to scan mine at 3818 x 2546 as opposed to Asda's 1840 x 1232. Now there are new staff and extra kiosks and by now film processing has probably been stopped since I last went in. They were talking about it.
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Well what I mean by proofs is:- For a cheap price you get a set of images on a CD (plus a handy index) then you can see if you have crappy ones, OOF etc and just copy the ones you want to your hardrive.
 
I'm gonna jump I tell ya......

I will....
 
I have left the film's in for processing.....will get results later or tomorrow......depending if can be arsed to go pick them up later......hopefully post some soon
 
h'mm I'm sure you said you only do 120 :rolleyes:

Well we are very polite here and always thought there should be an added "like and crap" button (or something more decent)...when you click on the like button that would mean overall the shot is excellent\good, but when you press the "like and crap" button it would mean the basic shot is excellent\good but the exposure\dev\presentation is crap........it would sort the Asda from lab shots or would it. :whistle:
 
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h'mm I'm sure you said you only do 120 :rolleyes:

Well we are very polite here and always thought there should be an added "like and crap" button (or something more decent)...when you click on the like button that would mean overall the shot is excellent\good, but when you press the "like and crap" button it would mean the basic shot is excellent\good but the exposure\dev\presentation is crap........it would sort the Asda from lab shots or would it. :whistle:
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:D It should be a smilie for "playing the same old record" for the way I support Asda :D

It might be looking up a bit for film use as I went to Asda about a month ago and the serial no for the CD etc ending in 83 and went back last week for some more film to be done and the number ended in 125...wow could mean 42 photographers used em in about a month. (y)
 
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