Where can I get black and white 120 film developed with prints?

Jimmy, in order to use consumer grade labs like Walmart and not have them send your film elsewhere, you need to use C41 35mm film. C41, B&w and E6 120 films all have to be sent to a professional lab. Personally, I think it makes more sense for folks starting out to use 35mm manual SLR's like the Pentax K1000 or Nikon FM instead of 120 Holgas. But that's just my opinion.

Back to you...

What you have is b&w film that requires b&w processing by a professional lab or at home. Look in your local Yellow Pages for photo labs. Local professional and semi-professional labs are good places to take your work if you have them. You can learn a lot from these people and they will probably do very high quality work.

B&w film is pretty easy to process at home but will take a good amount of education and practice. It is actually cheaper than lab processing in most cases though. It's best if you take a basic film photography course so you can have an expert show you the steps, help you buy the right materials and also use the school's resources without having to invest a ton of your own money before you even know what you're doing.

You can process your film at home without a darkroom. But you need a darkroom to make optical prints (prints from the negative.) What many people do is process at home, then scan the negatives using a flatbed scanner. This is another thing you have to study to learn to do properly. But then you can send the files out to professional print shops over the internet and have quality prints mailed to you. You can also display your images online easily if you scan your own negatives.

Trying to learn any of this from people who work at Walmart or even Yahoo Answers is a bit of a crapshot. What you need to do is read sites like this:

http://www.guidetofilmphotography.com/

and get involved in online film forums, and like I said, take a class.

Here's another Yahoo Answer about materials needed for home processing:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjR5h...

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I can help with the first part!

I use thedarkroom.com for my 120 developing (I have a Diana). I actually just sent off a roll of the film you have. It's $10 for a cd and $15 for cd + 4x4 prints. You just pay for the service you want (the lab knows what kind of film it is and what processing it needs, no need to worry about that) and send the film in. I usually just get the cd then get 5x5 prints from my normal lab.

Here is a link to a page I found for getting 120 film developed at Walmart, but it is from 2008 and may not be relevant anymore. http://forums.skateperception.com/index.php?showto...

Honestly though, I would not trust sending it through Walmart. If you read the above article they just tell you to scratch out the film types and write in 120. I would not send my film off knowing that the lab it is being sent to may not even process 120 film.

I have no experience developing my own film, hopefully someone else will help you with that!

Although you can develop your Kodak Tri-X at home, you'd need to buy an enlarger and dedicate a section of your home to a true darkroom if you wanted prints bigger than 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 contact prints.

This will give you a good idea of what setting up a darkroom would involve:

http://vividlight.com/articles/1412.htm

I suggest sending your Tri-X to Dwayne's Photo. http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/

12 exposures, 4 x 4 prints, 1 set, $5.99

Scan to CD at time of processing, $2.99

Shipping & Handling, $4.50. Add $0.50 for each additional roll.

If you are using a Holga, does it really matter what chemicals you use? It's not like we are talking quality images here.

Who knows, you might come up with a new twist on interesting-but-crappy photos by using color chemicals on B&W Holga photos.

But if you are wanting the Holga effect, buy a $25 Holga lens for a DSLR, then you won't be wasting a lot of money on processing.

B&W needs to be processed in its own chemistry. It is possible to process a chromogenic B&W film in the C41 process IF it's designed for that, such as Kodak's BW T400CN (name?) or Ilford's XP2.

As for doing one's own B&W at home, I've covered what one requires in previous posts.

Check out the Photo MFA website to find a lab, such as 120processing.com

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