There are a couple of labs in the city here that still work from film- albeit in a convoluted way.
Film: C-41, E-6, and black and white is still developed in the normal fashion.
Where it gets hairy is in the making of prints.
All the negatives and slides get digital scanning now to arrive at a print.
Unless one is dealing with a custom shop, it's best to have the expectations lowered a little.
There was a nice lady at the west-end lab here who was a very good judge of portraiture.
Her work with the few good ones I got with c-41 film was outstanding.
She has moved on to other things now, and I suppose I should try the lab across town for the rest of it.
There is one lab that I know of in southern Ontario that still does chemical printing.
I had thought I was going to get back into film anyways, and put up with the strange scans.
Went even as far as getting everything for developing film, and then dropped the idea.
For one thing, paper pricing has sky-rocketed. In my early retirement state, there's absolutely no way for me to afford paper- not even for contact prints. I couldn't even afford those prices if I was still working.
The first DSLR for me started to change the idea, and with the acquisition of the current D-810 full frame, it doesn't make any sense at all to deal with film anymore.
I'll likely shoot up what I have left here, and just do the lab thing with it, and leave it at that.
I still get pangs for shooting the F-2's. I sometimes find myself reaching up for the non-existent shutter dial on the D-810 and pinching air.
I've handled a few a/f lenses, and ended up less than impressed. I'm gonna stick with my old style glass a while yet, I think...
On the other hand, there's a nice nikkormat FT-3 on the local buy and sell
Regards,
Doc Sharptail
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