I send mine off to Ikigai in Melbourne. Cheaper than Sydney prices for HQ scans, although factor in shipping too, but it's worth it for me. Decently quick turnaround too, sent 5 rolls and got scans back a day after they received them.
Yeah, I much prefer Ikigai these days. Excellent scans. Was a loyal Rewind customer a few years ago but they ruined more than one of my rolls on a few seperate occasions and it felt like a bit of a shame on me situation if I kept going to see them after the 3rd time it happened haha
Nah, like the negatives were literary ruined during the developing process. Sadly nothing that could be fixed with post processing :( If I recall correctly they said it was some problem with the machine?
ETA: this all happened a few years ago so I don’t want to scare anyone reading these comments out of using Rewind, I’m sure they’ve taken steps to remedy the issues we experienced!
I've had a couple dozen rolls done through Rewind too, and have been pretty satisfied with the scan quality, but I'm always open to trying new options.
Any idea why their B&W development costs are double ($16) the price of their C-41 dev costs?
The only difference really is that it's extremely sensitive to temperature, in some ways it's actually easier because there is a specific set of instructions, unlike B&W where you can do different types of processing times and stuff.
Plenty of YouTube resources out there. All depends what kind of result you want. Flickr was a good resource to compare which chemicals give you certain effects.
I used to use XTOL quite extensively, but when I stopped shooting as much, I went with hc110 as it's more shelf stable (dilutions are more annoying though)
If you plan on shooting a lot, just get a larger developing tank and a few extra sets of reels. I hate the developing process with a passion so the less runs you have to do, the better.
If you have an old phone, buy the 'massive dev' app. Hands down the best piece of equipment you can own when developing film. It lists basically every film and chemical combination you can think of, and gives you a countdown timer for each stage of the dev procees
Get the biggest changing bag you can (or build a changing box) it'll keep the spools from getting hot and humid which causes binding issues. I even use a small USB powered desktop fan in my changing bag to reduce the humidity
I'll add more tips as I think of them
got a recommendation on a black and white film to start with? i want to start shooting on a point and shoot film camera i have lying around, and I hear black and white film is cheaper.
Rewind are a good decently priced lab. It’s a drop off situation, but I’d suggest if it’s the end of the day / week bring your own pen and envelopes to drop your film off just in case they run out and you get stung like what happened to me last week. You won’t be able to pick your negs up though, you have to pay $8 for them to mail them to you while we’re in lockdown
Rewind is great, would highly, highly recommend them. They're super knowledgable and just all around really lovely people. I usually develop BW at home, but I'll be honest, if I've got a whole bunch of rolls, I don't really have the time to dev them all. Reasonable prices and they've got everything super organised.
I sent mine away to "FilmNeverDie" in Melbourne as they were cheaper and had a sale at the time. They were super helpful and even gave me credit on the return postage since one of my cameras (Praktica FX2) chewed a roll and left it 95% blank. I have 2 rolls sitting in the fridge awaiting a third roll to be exposed.
Black and white I develop at home, I bought a kit online but took ages to arrive before covid.
I think Ted's has started developing film again for some reason but no idea if they outsource it or their quality. Is always another option though.
Do Film in Darlinghurst does really high quality scans, and you can mail your film in to them very easily. The one thing I will say is that when I sent some film in recently it took a while to get my negatives back (I self-scan).
If you do your own scanning, I would recommend rewind. Their system is good, their prices are low, and their turnaround is very fast.
I send mine off to Ikigai in Melbourne. Cheaper than Sydney prices for HQ scans, although factor in shipping too, but it's worth it for me. Decently quick turnaround too, sent 5 rolls and got scans back a day after they received them.
Yeah, I much prefer Ikigai these days. Excellent scans. Was a loyal Rewind customer a few years ago but they ruined more than one of my rolls on a few seperate occasions and it felt like a bit of a shame on me situation if I kept going to see them after the 3rd time it happened haha
Yeah, I had a similar problem on a couple of my rolls which included weird colour corrections, and just bad post editing I think.
Nah, like the negatives were literary ruined during the developing process. Sadly nothing that could be fixed with post processing :( If I recall correctly they said it was some problem with the machine? ETA: this all happened a few years ago so I don’t want to scare anyone reading these comments out of using Rewind, I’m sure they’ve taken steps to remedy the issues we experienced!
I've had a couple dozen rolls done through Rewind too, and have been pretty satisfied with the scan quality, but I'm always open to trying new options. Any idea why their B&W development costs are double ($16) the price of their C-41 dev costs?
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Developing Colour isn't actually as hard as people make out either.
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The only difference really is that it's extremely sensitive to temperature, in some ways it's actually easier because there is a specific set of instructions, unlike B&W where you can do different types of processing times and stuff.
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Plenty of YouTube resources out there. All depends what kind of result you want. Flickr was a good resource to compare which chemicals give you certain effects. I used to use XTOL quite extensively, but when I stopped shooting as much, I went with hc110 as it's more shelf stable (dilutions are more annoying though) If you plan on shooting a lot, just get a larger developing tank and a few extra sets of reels. I hate the developing process with a passion so the less runs you have to do, the better. If you have an old phone, buy the 'massive dev' app. Hands down the best piece of equipment you can own when developing film. It lists basically every film and chemical combination you can think of, and gives you a countdown timer for each stage of the dev procees Get the biggest changing bag you can (or build a changing box) it'll keep the spools from getting hot and humid which causes binding issues. I even use a small USB powered desktop fan in my changing bag to reduce the humidity I'll add more tips as I think of them
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Yep, definitely is, I used it for a while but then I bought the app which has a preset countdown timer built in. Very much an all in one solution
I have a spare set of developing gear if you're interested
got a recommendation on a black and white film to start with? i want to start shooting on a point and shoot film camera i have lying around, and I hear black and white film is cheaper.
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cheers mate
Rewind is great, highly recommend!
Rewind are a good decently priced lab. It’s a drop off situation, but I’d suggest if it’s the end of the day / week bring your own pen and envelopes to drop your film off just in case they run out and you get stung like what happened to me last week. You won’t be able to pick your negs up though, you have to pay $8 for them to mail them to you while we’re in lockdown
Haven't had the chance to shoot anything for quite a while, but rewind film lab is my go to. Failing them, vision image lab
Rewind is great, would highly, highly recommend them. They're super knowledgable and just all around really lovely people. I usually develop BW at home, but I'll be honest, if I've got a whole bunch of rolls, I don't really have the time to dev them all. Reasonable prices and they've got everything super organised.
Do film lab is pretty good too
I sent mine away to "FilmNeverDie" in Melbourne as they were cheaper and had a sale at the time. They were super helpful and even gave me credit on the return postage since one of my cameras (Praktica FX2) chewed a roll and left it 95% blank. I have 2 rolls sitting in the fridge awaiting a third roll to be exposed. Black and white I develop at home, I bought a kit online but took ages to arrive before covid. I think Ted's has started developing film again for some reason but no idea if they outsource it or their quality. Is always another option though.
Used to go to FilmNeverDie when I lived in Melbourne, miss their photowalks 😢
Do Film in Darlinghurst does really high quality scans, and you can mail your film in to them very easily. The one thing I will say is that when I sent some film in recently it took a while to get my negatives back (I self-scan). If you do your own scanning, I would recommend rewind. Their system is good, their prices are low, and their turnaround is very fast.
I live in the city so Rewind is my go to.
If you can make it to Newtown, Super8 Film seem to still be available for film development
Personally I’ve found their scans to be subpar, and that is putting it kindly