New Religion...Wal-Mart Processing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ed]

I always develop my k40 through walmart. any other kind of super 8 films you have to go elsewhere. but 5 bucks is a great price. I think a littel cheaper than that here in CT.

[robbie]

yeah, i got away with paying $4-5 USD for 100' regular8mm and double super8mm kodachrome via walmart or sams for 3 years. then one day recently there was a price of $17 usd on my returned film envelope. still not bad compared elsewhere. i called their outlab in Tifton Georgia as they desccribed that this is the price for the 100' roll. what was weird, this came after the lab somehow destroyed a 100' roll two weeks earlier. they would not replace the film only gave me the processing with heavy scratches for free. i didnt push the fact they should replace with fresh roll fear of hiking the price as they did anyway.

[Angus]

If I'd known Wally World did super 8 processing I wouldn't have had my cameras in hibernation when I lived in the states!

[boohoo]

hey guys, I wanted to know if walmart does regular 8mm processing and in 25ft 50ft or 100ft sizes. I know they do super 8 50ft k-40, but can you send anything else. I go the impression from an earlier post that someone had.

[super8man]

With regular 8mm kodachrome, I would be tempted to give it a try. The worst that can happen is that they send the film back unprocessed.

Good luck.
m
PS - Let us know if you are successful!

[Nick]

My experience at WM has been very inconsistent. Sometimes they will develop the K40 with no problems. Sometimes it comes back and the manager will say that S8 is not developed there anymore. I have been to 3 different stores in the city and the situation is usually different everytime. I usually drop it in and hope for the best.

The price is great though and if its super important, I will also just send it to Dwaynes.

Cheers,
N

[ccortez]

Me? I'll stick with $4.88 processing as long as humanly possible. My local camera store doesn't have a greeter - wal mart does!

Cheers,
m

It's a good thing you like greeters. The walmart-ization of the american economy and the death of the dollar almost guarantees that when you're old you'll get to BE one!

;)

PS I think gas is way too cheap, and I try to keep my fuel consumption down in general. The most advanced economic models going today were built using a figure of around $35 for light sweet crude, not the $45-50 we're seeing these days. And those are the advanced ones... many indicators are still based on the assumption that oil is $25 or $30 a barrel, which it will never see again in our lifetimes -- you read it here first. It takes economists a long time to build macro-models for the global economy; these days, by the time they get one done one of the main variables -- price of energy -- has gone up another 20%. Peak oil, baby. 8O

So nobody knows the real cost of anything, only the price.

[Triumph]

It's a good thing you like greeters. The walmart-ization of the american economy and the death of the dollar almost guarantees that when you're old you'll get to BE one!
... I think gas is way too cheap, and I try to keep my fuel consumption down in general.
....The most advanced economic models going today were built using a figure of around $35 for light sweet crude, not the $45-50 we're seeing these days.
...Peak oil, baby.
...So nobody knows the real cost of anything, only the price.

Dammit ccortez, now I have to go through all the trouble of removing your name from my poop list. I never liked Walmart anyways, but unfortunately they carry my favourite fake bacon.

[Andreas Wideroe]

Triumph, or should I say AngelDragon? Your account is now deactivated. Try to behave!

[AngelDragon]

Triumph, or should I say AngelDragon? Your account is now deactivated. Try to behave!

:lol: Our community shares a single T1 internet wireless connection , if you are reffering to our IP for that matter.

[Andreas Wideroe]

:lol: Our community shares a single T1 internet wireless connection , if you are reffering to our IP for that matter.

Well, that might be so, but I find it strange that two people sharing a simple T1 connection is so much interested in the pretty rare DS8 format. Anyway, your host looks pretty much like a cable/dsl connection to me. If it's not you, tell your friend to go somewhere else (you should know who he is).

[AngelDragon]

Well, that might be so, but I find it strange that two people sharing a simple T1 connection is so much interested in the pretty rare DS8 format. If it's not you, tell your friend to go somewhere else (you should know who he is).

Good to meet the admin, awand!
yeap, same community means he's seen me walking around with my Bolex, so he's interested in DS8 now. As a site admin my self I must say that I find your decition a bit rare, I've seen far more offensive posts around here and today he actually complemented ccortez. I'm unable to deliver your message to him right now, I think he went to walmart.

[MovieStuff]

Does Home Depot really put little hardware stores out of business?

Well, actually they do all the time. However, Home Depot can also help some of the smaller hardware stores in a very odd way. Sometimes I get realllllllly tired of the monolithic, chaotic volume characteristic of Home Depot, where there is to much of everything it is like a badly fragmented hard drive that also has no directory and no folders. When my time is worth more than the item I am trying to find, I will go to the smaller hardware store where service is friendly, people know you and everything is within reach. But, from a sheer pricing and volume standpoint, Home Depot does put a lot of smaller hardware stores out of business on a fairly regular basis.

As for gasoline, let's not even go into how it is not even keeping up with inflation.

Actually, we pay a lot more for gasoline than most people realize. What we don't pay for at the pumps, we pay for in taxes, in one way or another.

Roger

[AngelDragon]

Does Home Depot really put little hardware stores out of business?

monolithic, chaotic volume characteristic of Home Depot, where there is to much of everything it is like a badly fragmented hard drive that also has no directory and no folders.

Roger

"monolithic, chaotic volume characteristic"
You coined yeat another simple definition for Corporate America. Man!, I shall contact the people at nologo.org and tell them about it.

[marc]

I have been using Wal-Mart for all of my personal use K40 processing for years.

Which one do you use? I called around and they don't do it in my neck of the woods.

Not in mine either!