by Michael Zhang
If you’re a film photographer, here’s something you should be aware of: many film processing services at major drug and retail stores will no longer return your original film to you after developing and scanning it.
In the good old days, you could simply drop off your film at big-name stores and then pick it up later with your developed film strips along with any prints or CD that you ordered. Those days may soon be gone.
Photographer Jack English learned of this change in policy recently at a local Walgreens, where this has apparently been going on for years now. “I was at a Walgreens today and asked the lady if they process film and how much,” he tells PetaPixel. “It’s around $13. They send the film off and you get back prints and a CD, but NO negatives! She said they keep your negatives.”
We decided to see if this is true for all Walgreens locations, and whether other film processing services have followed suit.
After calling Walgreens’ corporate office about this, they told us to contact individual stores. We did so for several different locations, and none of them return processed film to photographers. The film you drop off is sent to a 3rd party service, which presumably destroys your film after digitizing and printing it for you.
So, Walgreens no longer returns your film to you. What about other popular consumer-oriented services out there?your negatives.”
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In the good old days, you could simply drop off your film at big-name stores and then pick it up later with your developed film strips along with any prints or CD that you ordered. Those days may soon be gone.
Photographer Jack English learned of this change in policy recently at a local Walgreens, where this has apparently been going on for years now. “I was at a Walgreens today and asked the lady if they process film and how much,” he tells PetaPixel. “It’s around $13. They send the film off and you get back prints and a CD, but NO negatives! She said they keep your negatives.”
We decided to see if this is true for all Walgreens locations, and whether other film processing services have followed suit.
After calling Walgreens’ corporate office about this, they told us to contact individual stores. We did so for several different locations, and none of them return processed film to photographers. The film you drop off is sent to a 3rd party service, which presumably destroys your film after digitizing and printing it for you.
So, Walgreens no longer returns your film to you. What about other popular consumer-oriented services out there?your negatives.”
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