List of film processors to use or to avoid

[Xia_Ke]

Keep me posted on your experience with them. I'm picking up some 4x5 slide film which will need to be sent out for development. E-6 is who I'm leaning towards using for my processing.

[rongarrett]

I dropped off my first two rolls of 120 film at Showcase in Atlanta, where I most often trade for supplies. They informed me they would have to send out one roll that was slide film, I think to E-six labs. Then it cost an additional $25.00 usd EACH ROLL, {plus an extra $7.50 for the slide film roll} for scanning. It seems everyone around here is stuck on 300 dpi scanning. They call the 300 dpi "high res". I must be missing something here. My contact at Showcase recommended an Epson V700 scanner. Upon a little internet investigation, the Epson scanner has two resolutions, 4800 dpi and 6400 dpi. That seems to be a very big difference in what the labs around here offer?

I can buy the Epson V700 for less than $500.00 usd. It would not take long for such a scanner to pay for itself, plus offer very much higher resolution? Dunno, I'm just getting into medium format filming, but doing my own scanning seems like a given to me. The V700 being a flat bed scanner with film capability would also be useful for the requests I get to "fix" customers old photographs also.

Being as I plan to use color negative film exclusively , {at least to start with}, the scanner looks like my next project for sure. Gonna go see what the internet has to say again.

[ctg]

I dropped off . . . additional $25.00 usd EACH ROLL, {plus an extra $7.50 for the slide film roll} for scanning. It seems everyone around here is stuck on 300 dpi scanning. They call the 300 dpi "high res". I must be missing something here. My contact at Showcase recommended an Epson V700 scanner. Upon a little internet investigation, the Epson scanner has two resolutions, 4800 dpi and 6400 dpi.
That seems to be a very big difference in what the labs around here offer?

I can buy the Epson V700 for less than $500.00 usd. It would not take long for such a scanner to pay for itself, plus offer very much higher resolution? Dunno, I'm just getting into medium format filming, but doing my own scanning seems like a given to me. The V700 being a flat bed scanner with film capability would also be useful for the requests I get to "fix" customers old photographs also.

Being as I plan to use color negative film exclusively , {at least to start with}, the scanner looks like my next project for sure. Gonna go see what the internet has to say again.

Ah . . . the shell game? They call the 300 dpi "high res", because digital printing services (pro labs) can only offer 300dpi rating which is not the same as the rating used for digital printing (it figures)? I scan 4x5 & 5x7 as well as 35mm so for scanning chromes are best ( & easiest) for reasons beyond negatives don't scan well.