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When I was in Costco today, I passed the photo department. Out of curiosity, I asked them if anyone even brings in film anymore. They said no, and don't even do film developing anymore. They refer all that to a local photo business downtown.
I got me to thinking about how long it's been since I bought camera film. I believe I can peg it at 2002/2003. It's hard to believe it's been that long.
When I was in Costco today, I passed the photo department. Out of curiosity, I asked them if anyone even brings in film anymore. They said no, and don't even do film developing anymore. They refer all that to a local photo business downtown.
I got me to thinking about how long it's been since I bought camera film. I believe I can peg it at 2002/2003. It's hard to believe it's been that long.
How long has it been for you?
I shot a couple of rolls in 2007 because the digital was being repaired, but other than that I think I stopped in 2002. And haven't done slides since early 90's. I recently looked at the small mountain of slides I want to digitize and saw "Ektachrome" and "Kodachrome" and others. Those were the days when you committed to a particular ISO (or, back then, ASA) setting and if you didn't set the camera's setting to match the film ... uh, oh! Yep, don't really miss those days.
We keep finding rolls here or there. Usually in an old camera. I found a roll of 120 film in an old brownie camera we had from my Dad. It could have been mine since I had a camera like that in the 1960s, we developed it and it turned out fine but we did not know any of the people int he pictures. It is difficult to find any place to get it developed now. I think we have so send it out of state somewhere.
I went digital in 2005 and haven't shot a roll of film since. I still have my film camera from the 1980s (a fairly high-end Minolta) and recently my son asked if we could buy some film so he could use it. I had to tell him that I honestly don't know where one can buy a roll of film anymore. Amazon, I suppose, or some specialty website.
You probably should develop it before it's gets harder and more expensive.
Thought about it and took your suggestion today. I dropped off my roll at the Walgreens. I was surprised when they told me it would be about ten days before I get a disc back... but at least I'll know what (if anything) is on that film.
Seems to me that since they do not return your negatives, and since they do not give prints (standard is a CD), they might as well just email the results.
I shot my daughter's wedding on film in 2004 (medium format). I think that was the last time I actually purchased film, and probably the last time I really shot film. Digital was making headway back then, but it was still too early to "trust it with a wedding" for most. A few years later, I sold the unused MF film on eBay (it had expired, but lived in my freezer). Actually made a small profit on that.
Spent a lot of time in the "family darkroom" as a kid way back when and don't miss it. These days it's Lightroom.
I think it was back in 1992-1993 before my trip to Thailand.
Oh, and I also bought 15-20 of those disposable cameras for my wedding tables back in (I think) 2004 (??). The ones where you take the entire camera to get developed. I didnt use them myself, just had guest at each table use it to take whatever pics they wanted. That was the last time.
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