mailing in X's without a mailer

Post by **hhhava** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:54 am

all the postings about mail-in K40 film have been great. But I'm looking to eliminate the inermediaries on my plus-x and tri-x film aswell. They don't come with mailers or anything, but if I call Kodak in Switzerland and ask them in French how much it will cost and what to do, can I potentially mail them a check my roll of Tri-x in an envelope? Or is this completley naive, as it will cost as much as if I go through some photo place in San Francisco who will mail it there for me for $15 processing?

Hava

Post by **T-Scan** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:41 am

Iv'e been researching this myself, and for tri X, plus X, or VNF, Forde labs in Seattle seems to be a good place.. and the cheapest from what I've found. check em out at http://www.fordelabs.com , B&W film is $11.49 per roll processing, VNF is $13.33 per roll. they also offer film-process packages for those films.

Post by **christoph** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:52 pm

hhhava wrote:all the postings about mail-in K40 film have been great. But I'm looking to eliminate the inermediaries on my plus-x and tri-x film aswell. They don't come with mailers or anything, but if I call Kodak in Switzerland and ask them in French how much it will cost and what to do, can I potentially mail them a check my roll of Tri-x in an envelope? Or is this completley naive, as it will cost as much as if I go through some photo place in San Francisco who will mail it there for me for $15 processing?

somebody please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think kodak switzerland does NOT process any black and white films (nor the ektachromes nor the vision negatives)... afaik they do only kodachrome, but there are plenty of places that do the other films, do a search here or in google.

btw, you can also ask for somebody that speaks german or english at kodak, and prolly italian too ;)

++ christoph ++

Post by **BolexPlusX** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:08 pm

If you look on the box the film comes in it says something like "Kodak does not process black and white reversal films"

This is nothing new by the way. In the mid eighties I stumbled across two rolls of Tri-X in a camera shop. I grabbed them up because I had never filmed with B&W Super-8 before. After I exposed them I started making the rounds of various processors looking for places to process the film. Kodak didn't process it, and I found out that Fotomat had stopped processing Tri-X and Plus-X 3 months earlier. Most of the other places I checked said "Black and White......Movies???!!!" I finally wrote to customer service at Kodak and got back a very pleasant letter with about 5 labs. A week later I had it back and it was great!

(Imagine how much easier this would have been with the internet!)

Post by **hhhava** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:25 pm

Thanks for the leads you guys. I didn't realize using b&w super-8 was so uncommon.
Hava

Post by **BolexPlusX** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:39 pm

Something is telling me that since Super-8 has shifted more from a home movie medium to a filmmaking medium the percentage of B&W has probably gone up. In those days most people using Super-8 wouldn't have been bothered with black and white (what??, where's the color??).

Filmshooting

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