YAY! I've got an Olympus Trip 35... film?

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It's not at hand yet, should get it soon~

However, I've been playing with one I found from my work place's "antique" section. Long story short, I found it, googled it and found how wonderful they can be for something older than me. Only just finished a roll of cheapo "highstreet brand name" colour roll today and will be developing it tomorrow at their store (or ASDA, if I'm there to shop for food)

I've also looked into film black & white photography - which seems to be much harder than colour photography in terms of development as only Boots seem to develop those non-C41 films. (and they're much more expensive too)

Can anyone tell me the diff of say a Fiji Neopan 400 CN C41 Black & White film to a say an Ilford Delta 400 Pro B&W? Would the non-C41 film be better when developed from Boots or the neopan from the highstreet?

I want to work abit on composition and give the Trip a good play around when I get it next week. Any more tips / tricks / help for the camera and film query would be much appreciated.
 
I can't answer your questions really, but I've been using Ilford XP2 Super (a C41 process black/white film), and it's really forgiving and looks pretty good to me. Also it's very cheap due to the standard processing.

These are some of my ilford XP2 super, developed at tescos and just put on a photo cd.
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It seems to be a bit beige/black but I like it.


It's really easy to shoot as you can expose it as an iso 200-800 film, despite it being advertised as an iso400 and still get acceptable results.



The C41 part of the black and white film means that they can develop it as colour, and as such it doesn't cost any more to develop - much simpler!
 
Thanks georges, that looks interested - but it isn't really "black & white" is it? From my screen, it looks more cold/blue/aged of a coloured image than B&W. Nonetheless, it's interesting that it's not just black and white.

Could it be because Tesco don't know what they're doing or it's the film processing that causes such an effect?
 
They do have a slight tinge, desaturate them and all will be fine

Its an easy way to spot a lab that's not looked after properly, black and white prints come out various shades of pink or green! all to common too!

all the high street labs scan settings aren't the greatest, the machines are more than capable tho, I had my lab setup to do 50mb scans for the customers I liked/me!

and xp2 is the way to go for BW!
 
Hmm... I'll look for a couple of XP2 to give it a go then, so it'll depend on which labs machine that's well maintained? I might pop to different ones to have a go then :) As for desaturating - you can't do that on photos can you? I mean actual developed out ones?
 
prints wise yes, scans wise there shouldn't really be any variations between labs of the same company etc, so it will be a case of finding the best lab for scans. the new generation of Fuji labs have very good dust and scratch removal, ( not that a lab should be scratching your film, but it does happen! )

and by desaturate, I mean the image in Photoshop, not the actual print etc, and I wouldn't normally get prints at the time of developing, to save some pennies!
 
If you don't get prints, do you do your own scanning or ask the lab to scan for you to CDs? I'm only just getting back into film photography - and thus very noobish with it. The last time I used film was on a Kodak, colour and I didn't give a nuts about quality/colouring/composition :p
 
What I do is ask tesco to process it and whack it on a picture CD. Costs £2 that way (although sometimes the cashiers only put the picture cd on the receipt, so it costs £1 ^_^ ).

You can then scan the negs yourself, or get them to print individual photos from the picture CD or from the negs for a higher quality.
 
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What I do is ask tesco to process it and whack it on a picture CD. Costs £2 that way (although sometimes the cashiers only put the picture cd on the receipt, so it costs £1 ^_^ ).

You can then scan the negs yourself, or get them to print individual photos from the picture CD or from the negs for a higher quality.
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Woo... that will save a bundle, only develop well composed / in focused shots judging from the scans. So it only cost 2quid in Tesco to develop AND pop onto CD?

Edit: Anyone used Kodak BW 400 CN before? Judging from Flick'r, they look contrasty and great tones. Can be had for like 3quid each online.
 
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Yeah it's 99p to develop only, and then 97p or something awkward to put them on a photo cd.

For films shopping I'd recommend (as I have been told about them on here before) 7dayshop.com as their films are incredibly cheap!
 
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georges said:
Yeah it's 99p to develop only, and then 97p or something awkward to put them on a photo cd.

For films shopping I'd recommend (as I have been on here before) 7dayshop.com as their films are incredibly cheap!
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I only just found them, god! their prices on the fuji films like the neopan 400 CN and the superia 400 are dirt cheap. Gonna buy from them now :)

Looks like Tesco is somewhere to go for value for money.

Is it possible to go to tesco for development and CD, then use the neg from there to do it at say another photo print shop?
 
Yeah, you can just ask for a "reprint", where they rescan the negatives, just indicate which frames you want scanned. I think tesco might even be able to do it, unless you want the others for print quality.
 
georges said:
Yeah, you can just ask for a "reprint", where they rescan the negatives, just indicate which frames you want scanned. I think tesco might even be able to do it, unless you want the others for print quality.
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Unless Tesco/ASDA uses Fuji processing labs, me think other places with the lab should give better colours / saturation if I use colour fuji rolls. Just spend 20quid on films, a tenner for the camera... Hmm... I can see this is going to be just as expensive as my digital.
 
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