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Quick question: Does anybody in the US know if I will be able to have my 24mmx24mm film processed and developed at a place like Walgreens or Walmart to keep the cost down, or if I will have to refer to a place like Ritz or Wolf Camera?

Thanks,
Danyell

im now thinking that ppl is just plain stupid :/
i asked them to give me the photos on a CD and the gave me the negatives instead of the photos digitalized -.-
is this regular procedure?... if it is... WHY? and how do i fix it -.-
example:

Madness!  They must have scanned it as a transparancy.  Take the negatives back, ask them to scan them again properly and give you a new CD - you paid them to do a job for you and they screwed up!

I fixed your photo in photoshop using invert colors then auto color fix, most photo editors will at least do an invert, you can even invert using Microsoft Paint but the colors won't be quite correct due to the orange mask used on negative film.

Great pinhole photo though, well done ! 

 

i'm thinking your lab is using a new scanner they are quite unfamiliar yet.. had a similar experience when i had my panoramic shots scanned. they had this fresh from the box hp scanjet which i thought could do the job, unfortunately the manual was lost and the operator could not figure its functions out yet..the scans were all in negative. i think it may have needed some proper settings or post processing.

I'm going back once they master how to use it.

im now thinking that ppl is just plain stupid :/
i asked them to give me the photos on a CD and the gave me the negatives instead of the photos digitalized -.-
is this regular procedure?... if it is... WHY? and how do i fix it -.-
example:

Thanks, missed that one on google..so i'm never using that film again. I just hope these expired Superias aren't just relabelled YKLs (theywere packed in the Philippines too).

I also came across a free application (Neat Image)to work on my grain problem. It's actually for sale but they do have a free demo version for home use. Works great!

Somehow, i feel the need to have my own scanner.

I hadn't heard of Fuji YKL but a quick google turned up this comment in a flickr forum:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ishootfilm/discuss/72157620478944457/
"So, what was the worst film you've ever used in a reusable camera?
In my case it has to be a YKL-100 film (some Philippine market Fuji-based film), the film has very low-contrast, the colors were bland, and it was grainy for a 100 film. It's weird because, I used a Kodak 400 Ultramax an hour before that and that 400 film got precise color and very little grain in very similar lighting."

So perhaps your film is just very bad.  The Superia should be fine though.

The other main factor is wrong exposure; if your negs look very thin and underexposed you're likely to see a lot more grainy images.

The pinhole size will have nothing to do with it.  Film development is standard C41 so that shouldn't either.  It may be that the lab are over sharpening the scan, perhaps because of the "soft" nature of pinhole photos. That will tend to highlight the grain.  The might be able to switch off any sharpening for you, I don't know - it might all be automatic.

all right,i know i'm shooting film and grain is a part of it. But i also see some rather fine photos from other contributors..
What are the factors causing photo grain? Is it the type of film used? I've used FujiYKL (still got some frames unexposed on my superia roll)..
Did i make my pinhole smaller/larger than optimum?
Or,has it got something to do with developing/scanning? (the lab does that for me)

thanks, i see it now..

A question though,how do you get those numbers near the holes? I don't see them in my previous negs.don't all films contain thes numbers? or does it need to be exposed for the numbers to appear when developed?

Film is pre-exposed during manufacture with the frame numbers etc, not sure why your film didn't have the frame numbers, I've never seen any that didn't

Thanks al! Just finished my cam. Well,i actually made it a little bigger at 18 clicks per frame. The photo lab lady said she could scan custom-sized negs,quite good news (now i can go square too!)
I'm also going for those sprocket holes this time. A question though,how do you get those numbers near the holes? I don't see them in my previous negs.don't all films contain thes numbers? or does it need to be exposed for the numbers to appear when developed?