# Camera mania

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-mania/718069>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 19, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-mania/718069 "2015-04-19T21:17:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-mania/718069/21 "2015-05-05T20:07:29Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> (And gosh, wouldn’t it be great to have wood sticks to support my Arri 16S? 😛 )

So I made an offer on Arri wooden tripod legs and head. Someone else offered more, and the seller didn’t send me a counteroffer. So I bought a very nice set of wooden legs with no head, but a 100mm bowl. (Which means my Bogen 3066 head will fit it.) Then the guy with the Arri sticks emailed me and said the buyer needed time to pay, so he cancelled on him and offered the legs to me. I snapped them up. But that means I’ll have a surplus set of wooden tripod legs.

Today I was notified that the seller of my second-choice legs, the ones that would be surplus, cancelled my order and refunded my money. The Arri legs I _did_ want are in transit and should arrive Friday.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camera-mania/718069/22 "2015-05-08T04:38:39Z")

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> [@Kenm](#):
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> Who still processes all that stuff, and at what cost?
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> Processing a measly eight shots on 120 film when I dust off my 1930 Brownie box and hold a tag day for myself costs upwards of $35, or $40 and up including the film and burning a CD.
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> **Edited** to add that it’s colour film.

Just checking out prices for super-8.

Pro8mm sells all of their film with processing. Fifty-foot rolls of colour negative or reversal, plus processing, is $45. If you get negative stock, you’ll need to have it transferred.

They have various levels of transfer including SD, HD, and 2K. For [HD](http://www.pro8mm.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=01&Category_Code=S8HDPKG), prices run from $128 (film + processing + HD scan) for one roll, to $1,128 for 12 rolls. Per the link: ‘Each package includes your choice of premium film stock, processing, prep & clean, digital scanning on our sophisticated State-of-the-Art Millennium II 2K scanner with y-front dirt and scratch concealment technology, and 1 file format of your choice. All film will be scene-to-scene color corrected by an expert colorist.’

Super-16 film + processing + HD scan runs $168 for one roll to $1,518 for 12 rolls. Those prices are for 100-foot rolls. I haven’t found 400-foot rolls on their website. But then I’ve just been glancing.

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