Where is the best place to find 35mm film and to get it developed?

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10. OK - I have done business with both companies and like them both

Bought my N70 with lenses from B&H in 1999 and my D70 with more lenses from Adorama in 2005. Plus, I just bought two D750 bodies and a new lens from Adorama.

I remember film mailers - that does make it handy. I used Seattle Film Company for 35mm back in the 1990s before I could afford a slide/negative scanner. They would develop your film and scan it for a very reasonable price. I still have the 3.5" floppies from them, though I transferred those pictures to CDR long ago.

These days I'll probably do my own scanning - I have an Epson V800 photo scanner that does an awesome job with slides and film. I bought it to scan my grand father's large format negatives he took from 1910 through his death in the 1950s.

I wish I knew what camera he used, but the pictures are amazing and in some cases historic. He was a civil engineer in New Orleans and took pictures of levee blowouts, then he signed up for the Army Corp of Engineers (or what became that) and rebuilt roads in France at the end of WWI. Then he was hired to run a phosphate mine in Agricola and took pictures of that mining town that no longer exists as well as the mining operations in the 1920s-1950s. Some of the scans are now in the Florida State Photo Archives.