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I found a hippie in the country who would develop and scan my negatives, but here's the thing, I'm very new to analog photography (new to photography in general, actually) and I needed to know if his offer was a load of crap or not.
In this case, he would develop any of my negatives, whether black and white, orthochromatic, c-41 or ecn22, for the price of 5.73 US dollars and would scan them for 2.50 US dollars, that's for each roll, i.e., 36 exposures.
I won't know the real quality of the photos unless I test them, but these prices make me very suspicious of this crazy guy.
I don't know if it's better for me to develop the negatives at home (if that interferes with the quality of the photo or not) or if I should just send everything to him and that's it.
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I forgot to mention, but the negative scan is at 24MP (that's what he said). Now I don't know if he would photograph the negatives with another camera and "develop" them, or if he would use a scanner like a Plustek.
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I asked him for some examples of photos taken using the method we're discussing here, and he sent me these.
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Hard to tell if those were properly exposed to begin with, so some of the issues with these might be scan issues but more likely in-camera issues. At the very least, it's cheap. Just send a couple rolls. They don't look to have crazy color shifts, so at least they're getting developed ok.
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Ask him to send you a scan including the film borders. If the barcode and text on the borders is sharp he's probably doing a good job. Anything else is impossible to tell through WhatsApp + 4chan compression