Film Developing

[TexasMike]

Herman's got the right idea. I used the Sea Processing for my photos from my Flower Gardens trip. But as you can see when you look at my photos, not all of them are ones I consider "keepers".

The "bonus" that the Sea Processing provides is when the photos are printed. Developing your film is the same process as any color negative film. But the Sea Processing machines are already setup to "balance" the colors and add in what was "left out" when you pressed the shutter button.

So I would rather have my local Wolf Camera shop do their best, and then have the ones I want to really keep or enlarge done by the Sea Processing. This way I get to see my results faster (It took my LDS 10 days to send off and get back my photos) and I save money by only Sea Processing the prints that I want. And Wolf can also do put your prints to a photo CD if desired.

 

[Tavi]

If drop my pics off by thursday, I have them back on Monday.
also I was amazed at how many keepers I had!
Tavi

 

[triggertravel]

I have used Kodak Sea processing before and I think it is wonderful.

I didn't know that you could send them your negatives to print though! How do you do that? Do just buy the envelope and put the negatives in it?

 

[syruss32]

I know when I get back from my trip to St. Thomas I am definately going to spend the few extra bucks and have my pictures developed this way.

I have a few underwater pics I took while snorkeling in St. Thomas (this was before the full addiction to scuba set in) and they came out kinda blah color wise. Of course when you are diving down as deep as you can and just sort of aiming at the fish before coming back up and grasping for air, it is amazing I got any fish/coral at all.

Most of them had fishes tails leaving the scene, or a head popping into the shot. And a few of another snorkelers butt, not sure how that happened, but I assured my wife it must have been caused by light refraction due to solar flare activity!

Syruss
http://www.coraladventures.net

 

[TexasMike]

Trigger,

Probably the simplest way to get reprints or enlargements from existing negatives is to visit the LDS that is offering the Sea Processing. If you click the link in Joewr's earlier post, you should be able to find a dealer locator to find someone close to you.

--TejasMiguel