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

[jmowreader]

14. Where I go

I shoot a lot of film. And anymore, all I shoot is ISO 100 slide film. I'd been shooting Fuji Provia, but I'm going to try some of the newly-rereleased Ektachrome 100.

I have three vendors for film: B&H, Adorama and Freestyle. Usually I get my film at B&H, some "other supplies" at Adorama, and buy a little stuff from Freestyle basically to keep my account there active - back when you could still get 100-foot rolls of color film for bulk loading, it all came from Freestyle. But this year, Freestyle was the one who tipped me off to Fuji raising the shit out of their prices (probably because of the Orange Menace) so I bought my full year's worth of film from them.

I use two labs, both mail order: Dwayne's Photo in Kansas, and Color Resource Center (CRC) in New York City. I sent a few rolls to Dwayne's earlier this year and they came out fine; the rest of this year's film will go to CRC. If you're in New York and you're shooting slide film (if it's got "chrome" in the name, like Ektachrome or Fujichrome, it's slide film) CRC routinely turns it around in three hours.