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So my parents just gave me this camera.
This is from my childhood expired in 2003.
Oh my gosh, that was 20 years ago, this year and I'm gonna send this off to get developed, but I want to share where I get my film even developed in the first place that is the dark room let's get into it you're, the type of guy that was a jock in high school, but ended up becoming a huge nerd.
You know, someone that's not afraid to make a fool of themselves on the internet.
And someone likes to shoot Polaroid a little too much did I say, huge nerd, you know, just an ordinary everyday guy.
Well, that's me, I'm just another Chris.
Yeah.
So this is 20 years old and there's, still a few photos left on it.
I'm gonna try and take some quick photos with these later I wanted to talk about where I send my photos to be developed I do shoot some film, I don't, shoot a ton and I don't shoot it often just because of the expense it's, really, really expensive it's really fun to shoot with don't, get me wrong.
It's just another added expense on top of instant photography, which this channel is mostly known for and yeah, instant photography is really expensive.
But when I received that, it reminded me of this disposable camera that I picked up and shot while in New York City during 2020, mid pandemic.
So I said, this off to be developed.
Now you may be asking yourself, well, if you send it off, how do you still have it I just opened it up pulled the film out and sent the film Caster by itself and kept this because I actually kind of want to reuse this and take more photos with it I think it'd be kind of fun that's a whole other topic.
Another video, maybe down the line.
So I don't develop my own film, I don't, shoot it often enough to justify having that setup and everything.
So what I do is I use a service.
And that is the dark room or the dark room lab.
And they do a wide variety of different film types.
They do the most common ones, medium format, 120 35 millimeter film disposable slash single-use cameras.
And it starts at 12 for developing which isn't too bad.
However, if you shot several rolls, well, that's going to be 12 per roll.
So yeah, I mean, it can add up really really quick.
One really cool thing about their services.
You have a couple different ways that you can go about sending them the film, and you don't actually have to pay up front to get the film to them.
You can go online and print out a pre-made label and just send your film off and get it developed that way, or you can actually request a mailer has everything you need inside this little bag paper, filling out what you want done.
It's, pretty cool.
And you don't have to pay for the shipping.
You do have to pay for the shipping back, though, because you do get your negatives returned to you.
But you also get a digital scan of each photo that you had developed, and that is stored on their server.
I think you have a few months before you.
They will then disappear.
But another really cool thing that they offer is, they have their own app and it's just for viewing your photos.
You download the app.
And then you can see your photos download them to your phone, and then maybe wait for the negatives to come back.
And if you want to scan them yourself, whatever you want to do, you can also request them to be put on CDs or USB drives.
You do have to pay a little extra for higher resolution, scans there's different levels.
You can choose from for a higher resolution for more.
You know, DPI and Clarity for point and shoot cameras, I, don't really pay for the upgrade of those.
Now if you're gonna be shooting on the medium format type thing with a nice lens, nice glass and all that man it's worth it, definitely to pay that little extra charge for scanning for this higher resolutions.
But if you do your own scanning then you don't, have to worry about it.
It's nice to be able to preview your photos before you have them.
If you want to do a quick like Instagram post or share you're able to do that right away without even having to get your negatives returned to you so that's, still really cool now worth noting.
You can only send so many at a time in one pre-paid in envelope.
And you can only send one disposable single-use camera at a time and that's.
Also another reason why I wanted to open this up because I had like three other canisters to send I just opened it up and put it all into one.
So that's, a little hack there for you and I'll, take a quick look at some of the photos from this because again, it's from 2020.
And it was technically expired film, because when I bought this, it was expired, didn't, pay attention.
Yeah, it expired May of 2020.
I bought this in like June of 2020.
So it was already expired when I was shooting it, but they still came out really good.
I mean, I've never been to New York.
This was the first time I ever got to go there downtown Manhattan.
There was no people there really at all I mean, it was Peak pandemic.
Everyone was inside quarantine, but it was so I snapped some photos to kind of show like an empty, New York.
I mean, there were still some people walking around.
But as you can see from some of these photos like I'm, pretty sure even though I've never been there before, but I'm, pretty sure the streets don't look like this on the regular basis, I mean, I went down to Times Square where and there there was like nobody there.
It was pretty much vacant Ghost.
Land, I, didn't, get any photos.
Unfortunately, it was too late in the day for photos and I was I was tired at that point.
I remember, definitely checked out the Ghostbusters Firehouse that was pretty fun and took a quick stroll over the Brooklyn Bridge and there's.
A few other photos on here that were from random times of who knows when the classic husang and Larry sign any long time, viewer of the channel knows that's, usually my testing sign I, take photos of that.
All the time it's, a really good restaurant, though highly recommend it if you're ever in the Vancouver Washington area, check it out really good food.
There's.
My boy, Paco here in the studio I think I just moved in at that time.
And then some random shots around the studio.
And what my desk looks like on a typical day.
Yeah, I wanted to capture that.
So if you ever see my office on video at some time and looks clean just know I cleaned that for that video Don't, let me fool, you I've never had a single problem with the dark room, and for the cost and everything I mean, I feel they're probably the best option.
If you just want to get started, obviously doing this yourself would be the cheapest, however, the initial coughed into it is kind of high to get the stuff that you need.
But then long term, it would be cheaper, especially if you're shooting it's a lot of film, if you're only shooting, you know, a handful of film every few months or something like that, it's cheap, just send it off just send it off to have done and yeah, save yourself the headache later, but I have some trips coming up and I'm hoping to bring this and shoot some uh, more medium format, because I do have a few roles left of this portrait, 400 120 film.
It is expired.
Now I I bought it in like 2021 and expired July of last year.
So I need to shoot it.
I mean, it's been sitting in my fridge.
So we're, we're, fine, but I want to get a shot and shooting with this yoshika D, it's, really, really fun.
Experience.
I did a video on this years ago.
If you want to check that out of shooting my first ever roll of film, yeah, well, I mean, I grew up shooting 35 millimeter.
But this is like the first time I ever like did something outside of a point and shoot on film, because this is all point and shoot disposable type cameras.
But yeah, this was the first time I ever used a kind of a camera with manual control and all that it was really fun.
If you want to check it out it'll be linked in the description below, what do you use for your film development? Do you do it yourself? Do you send it off to somebody? Let me know in the comments below let's, chat, stay tuned for this video because I'm really curious to see what childhood photos are on here.
I think who knows what we'll see? Thank you so much for watching hopefully this has helped I'll see you in the next one now get out there make some art.
