jessops developing shock

[chr1s]

i took a 36 exposure roll of ilford fp4 to jessops today to get developed and put onto a cd for me.

£17.50!!!

wowzers!

is that the going rate!?!

if it can't be done for much less than that i can't see me using my new old oly trip very much!!!

[Zou]

All my mono chemicals together cost about that - and that's enough for about 20 rolls... If you want to use film a lot it really does work out cheaper to a) develop it at home, and b) scan it yourself.

[sey]

^^whs^^

and equipment is a minimum and besides it's a helluva lot more fun!

[alanworland]

I am sure this was about £8 only 2 months ago, and that included the highest quality scan to cd!

[Manofolympus]

I woudn't consider paying for D+P for mono as it is so cheap and easy to do yourself! Jessops do seem to be cranking their prices up steadily-an earlier thread described their jump in film prices.

[kennethcooke]

^^whs^^

and equipment is a minimum and besides it's a helluva lot more fun!

I second that but in the short term use Ilford Post Paid which is cheaper than Jessops and also Jessops print B&W on colour paper in Fuji processors which means you get colour bleed

[chr1s]

is ilford post paid available from shops or is it a direct only service?

[Manofolympus]

Ilfordlab here though I think you can purchase processing envelopes still-though I haven't seen any in shops for a bit.

[MartyG]

They can be bought from the 7dayshop too.

(Get the chems dev your own )

[El_Sid]

MetroLab prices...

[Wheelu]

Incredible. I would endorse the previous posters who recommend developing B&W yourself, it's fun, not difficult, and very inexpensive. Scanning is another matter however.

I am pretty sure that I paid Jessops less than £10 to have a roll of 35mm Ektar developed and scanned earlier this year, and that included a couple of quid for a higher res scan. It was cheap enough but the scans were not up to much. I wonder if they made a mistake with your price?