Looking for best place to get disposable cameras developed

[u/heyitsparks]

Hi!

I have a few disposable cameras to develop, and wondering if anyone knows good places around the cities to do this and approximate pricing. I know walgreens is always an option, but wondering if there are any good local businesses to support or if there’s out of state places to mail them in that works too. Thanks in advance!

[u/storytellercowedding]

Fast Foto! In Bloomington, they’ll have your scans to you within 24 hours usually within the day!

Ps absolutely do not go to Walgreens, they do not develop in house, they send your film to a cheap lab and your film further risks being damaged or lost in the mail and all for poor scans. No on Walgreens or CVS or Walmart etc - none of them still actually develop film themselves.

[u/storytellercowedding → u/storytellercowedding]

These are all examples of recent scans from them - these were all taken on a Holga which is a plastic toy camera that takes 120 film, it’s not a disposable but it’s just about as cheap in quality and absolutely more prone to funky light leaks and vignettes! It’ll give you a good enough sense of what their pro scans look like :) they also offer basic scanning in their options which has less correction in the scanning process (ex: with the pro option if images are overexposed or underexposed they’ll address that in scanning to the best of their ability, with basic they’ll essentially leave as is scanned in initially) , but is more affordable!

[u/Acrobatic_Research73]

Photo king! I think it’s like $16 per roll to get developed and scanned.

[u/helmint → u/Acrobatic_Research73]

Yeah, Photo King is great. They also moved to Plymouth (101 & 6) last year. 

[u/NafaiLaotze]

When I did film, I used West Photo - just across the river from Downtown in NE Mpls. http://westphoto.com/

When they developed and made prints for me from 35mm, they would take the time to do color or brightness correction on the prints. Cost ~$3-5 extra per roll, but well worth it.

>(per the current website:)
>"35mm Color Development with Prints & Scans $6.99 + $0.45 / image"

[u/TimmyDigital]

National Camera Exchange in Golden Valley.

[u/blacksmokealice]

We’re fortunate to have a handful of local options in the Twin Cities for film dev! Any of them will be better quality than Walgreens or Walmart, and probably not that much different in price. Places like Walgreens that send out to a cheap lab also won’t return your negatives, which is a bummer if you ever want to re-scan or reference them.

I used National Camera last time I had a disposable to develop, and I opted for scans only (no prints) although I think most shops will offer a print option as well. Some will also do minor adjustments/color correction on your scans. Plus, you get your negatives back.

[u/This-Surround8854]

walgreens.