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[pct-l] Seattle Film Works



Hello All -

Sly asked:

>I ordered a bunch of film from Seattle Filmworks...
...
>Has anyone here used Filmworks and this particular film?  What were the
>results?

For those not familiar with SFW, using their film and processing gives you
back both Slides and negatives on a basic processing order.  They keep
sending you "free" replacement film when you use their processing.  Not
every other film processor can handle the type of film that SFW uses, so
you tend to be locked into their system.  I have found their prices to be
competitive with most other development methods when you consider all costs
involved (film, processing, and mailing costs).

I have used SFW a lot over the last two decades.  We use SFW on all our
Scout trips.  We have a couple of Troop cameras (Olympus Infinity Twins),
the Historian uses one and the Senior Patrol Leader passes the other around
for the different Scouts to use to take their favorite pictures.  The
leaders also use Troop film in their personal cameras.  We combine all the
rolls and order only the basic slides/negatives.  We do a big slide show
after each trip and the parents choose whichever pictures they want prints
of.  We use the negatives to make the prints and then we save the negatives
in case anyone else ever wants to make more prints.  The slides are stored
in those clear plastic pages (20 slides per page) in big binders.  We use a
light table to make up training presentations from the slides.

I used SFW on both the AT and the PCT.  Did over a thousand slides on each
<g>.  Am now using SFW as I do sections of the CDT.  I do a lot of
presentations, so I just get the slides/negatives...I use the negatives to
print off any picture I want (not many).  I always use the 400 asa in my
various PHD cameras (am now using a Pentax IQ Zoom...I liked my Olympus
Infinity Zoom a little better, but I lost it in the Rockies last summer).

I am a picture taker...not a photographer <g>.  I have never had any
problem with SFW and I am sitting here looking at a binder of perfectly
good slides dating back to '79.

Remember, SFW will give a discount when you send in a minimum number of
rolls.  I would send my exposed rolls to my wife and she would wait until
enough had accumulated to get the discount before she sent them in.  Talk
to SFW...they might even consider the rolls sent in from each town stop
along an entire thru-hike to be one order (stick the post-paid mailers in
your resupply box).  I have found them to be very easy to deal with.

Good luck with those precious pictures!

- Charlie II  AT (MEGA'93)
             PCT (Mex@Can'95)
         Chipping away at the CDT



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