Develop Film straight to CD

[todpod]

Long story short my DSLR took a dump, gonna break out the old ZX-l and shoot some film. Anybody develop to cd rather then do prints, and have quality scans? I am not looking for high end stuff just some pretty good. Thanks

 

[corkyg]

There are several providers that can do this - Costco and Walgreen's to name a couple. Film development produces an analog image - then that image has to be converted to digital - that is what scanning does. I don't know of any process that can develop film directly to a CD. It requires analog to digital conversion.

 

[todpod]

Okay maybe I asked the question wrong. How about skipping the prints and just getting the negitives and a cd

 

[corkyg]

Yes - the A to D conversion can be done from negs or slides. No need to print.

 

[bobdole369]

Short answer: Yes - pretty much anybody who has a reasonably current 1 hour photolab will "develop only" and scan negs to CD. Walgreens does this all day with Agfa labs, CVS usually uses Noritsu. Walmart with labs on premises can all handle these requests. Ritz camera shops/Wolf camera are all about the same quality as anyone else.

Essentially the "digital photolabs" all chemically develop the film, and then the negative is directly scanned. This is how they make an "index print".

1 hour photo labs then either do or don't produce whatever size prints you request from that scan, and optionally get a CD.

At Walgreens in particular I know from personal experience that they will "develop only" for like $3 24 35mm. You have to ask them not to cut the negs or they will give you back 6x4packs of negatives. I've never asked for just a CD, but I know that would just be a matter of running the negs back through to produce the CD (or it might be an option in the machine as part of dev, I've never operated it).

 

[finbarqs]

the serious scans are drum scans... very expensive!

 

[The Stigenator]

Well I shot two rolls of 24 exp film yesterday. I am sending them to www.thedarkroom.com to process. I have never used them. Some of the other boutique places that advertise roll scans are a bit more pricey. Lets see how their prints and scans come out. For 2 rolls with high quality (enhanced) scans came to 47 bucks with shipping..

Pricey!!! I am not sure if wallyworld, target, costco, cvs/walgreens can do film processing any more.. So I ended up sending it online. I cant wait to see what actually comes out of all these 48 pics.

 

[todpod]

I don't need anything fancy, just trying to tide myself over till I can spring for a new dslr