If you dev your own b&w (which is the only way to get it done
properly) the costs are low at ~£2 for film and the chems are cheap.
It does depend on how much you shoot, I end up dumping more developer
than I use because I just don't shoot enough and it doesn't last. This
puts up the cost.

Matt's figures on the costs are typical.

The biggest thing for you to consider cost-wise is how you will be
printing - running costs often pale in comparison! All colour printing
is pretty much done by digital processes which means scanning the
film. For drum scans you are looking at £45+ per frame(!), a nikon
coolscan 90000 which gives quality not far off is still in the
thousands to buy, cheapo flatbeds are just not up to the job making
all the pain of shooting film not worth it since you could just use a
dslr. The best solution I have found is to use R&K photographic who
use a coolscan 9000 and change £4 a frame to scan. Other places that
use an imacon may only be slightly more.

For b&w if you have no darkroom you need to send out the printing;
this is what I do and get hand prints made on fibre. Costs are
horrific (£40 for a 16x12" anyone?) but digital b&w just can't match
it yet and for these prices you get the best printers in the business
printing your negs :)
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Surely that's for big exhibition prints.  My local pro shop can print up to
11 x 14 (as I recall) using their in house machine at something less than
$20 a print.  If you want larger, they'll scan for $23 and print it out on
an epson.  I have an 8000ed, so I don't know how good those scans are at
that price.  My point is, unless you're a pro who needs lots of large prints
for your clients or the galleries, you don't need a lot of big expensive
scans and prints.

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www.mattclara.com

I'm buying my 3rd used 'blad lens tommorrow (120 Makro f/4).  Your
problem I think is that Tokyo used prices are outrageous (I visited a
half dozen stores in Shinjuku and the Ginza area a few years ago...).

j. fabian schrieb:

You can lower costs with a little dark room and a used Jobo processor.
Maybe some enlarging stuff. For b/w it's almost nothing. I am here in
Germany - in euro:

b&w-film: 1 gallon of D-76 is 5 euro and enough for 15 films. 0,33
euro/film. Add 0,15 Euro for fix. Less than half a Euro per film.

E-6: Tetenal 3-bath is 65 euro/5 liters. That's for 60+ film. You can
develop 70-80 film if you work with many films at once. So it's 1,10
euro per film.

And the used Jobo-processor is 50-100 euro.

It's not expencive at all! And it makes fun.

Andreas