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[perkxplosion]

I know there are quite a few lomo people here in the area. I was curious where people get their film developed and at what price? I just got into lomography recently. I bought a Holga to start out with. I've been using Kodak in Hongdae and overall it's been evening out to about $10 a roll, which can get to be very expensive. A problem that I recently ran into is that the Kodak store told me they couldn't develop my black and white Rollei. I have no idea why, and if anyone does please oblidge me with an answer. Have any of you developed black and white Rollei in Seoul? Where and what price? Thanks for any info...

*edit* also feel free to post up any shots if you want...

[moosehead]

if you are into b&w you should really learn to develop it yourself; lab processing is not going to give you any kind of real quality.

there's a Leica club in Korea that is mostly Koreans but has a foreigner or two amongst them - I was asked to join once but didn't have time. ask around the Chungmuro camera shops about how to meet up with them; you can also buy equipment there to develop your own film.

[Baummer]

check out this site:

http://www.rjkoehler.com/2010/05/26/chungmuro_guide_photographer/

$10 a roll sounds like American prices. I just got 8 rolls developed and scanned and burned on a cd for $46 at Phototop in Chungmuro. Photopia is also decent, and the "Toy camera" store has done good work for me before as well, although I think they might take their film to one of the other places to get it processed, not sure. Anyway, go explore that area, there's a ton of cheap places. Also, join the SPC where you can pose these kinds of question in the forums and get way more responses than here on ESL cafe.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/seoulphotoclub/

[InOtherWords]

Yeah I agree about the B/W, develop it yourself if you want the quality the film is capable of.

I'm not in Korea yet, but was hoping it'd be reasonable to shoot film there.
It's probably far fetched, but it'd be awesome to find a lab and develop the film myself there for a fee or something... Maybe at an arts university.

Some old threads suggest there's a huge camera street/area in Hongdae.., but I wonder if there's a lab where you can become a member at?? Would something like that exist?

I plan on buying a nice medium format when I get there, plus a negative scanner.

Baummer, thanks for the SPC link, looks like they have a lot of answers.

[moosehead]

the OP is talking about b&w, and also maybe 120 - right OP? is that the film you need processed for the rollei?

the prices you mention are for color - which is done automatically. b&w everywhere is done by hand; often times used chemicals, sometimes not rinsed well and a general gray patina is often the result. processing by one's own hand assures the chemicals are fresh, the rinses are good and the fixer is adequate.

it's not that expensive or difficult to do on one's own and offers a great deal of satisfaction. then scan in the negs and have a go at it on photoshop

[perkxplosion]

[moosehead]

[InOtherWords]

I always load my 35mm in partial lighting... By doing it in the dark you get maybe one or two more frame/roll. If you're in the street, you just gotta load it and wind past the first frame. Even after doing that, I still get 37, maybe 38 pictures per 36 roll.

[moosehead]

I think the subject is about loading exposed rolls into the canister for film processing.

you don't want any light then as the film has already been exposed once - if you have light leaks, you'll be fogging the film, which is not exactly desirable.

[InOtherWords]

ah sorry, I read that wrong..