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At those developing prices, is it now just cheaper to self-develop, and take advantage of bulk buying the chemicals and paper?



It depends if you also want a developing hobby. If what you enjoy is, say, walking about and taking photographs of natural stuff, then "Ooh, and I get to spend hours in a darkened room developing the photographs" might not be what you like about that.


And you're mostly constrained to B&W. (Yes, you can do color but it requires a lot tighter control of temperature and processes generally. I tried it and wasn't worth it even as someone who did B&W processing/printing for many years.) As you say, darkroom work is a whole other--and largely different--hobby.


For development you don't need paper, that's the next step, printing.

Color printing old school style basically disappeared though.




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