Kit for slide/E6 developing... Where to get?

[londonray]

Hey guys,
just bought some Velvia 100F recently and was very pleased with the quality of the pictures..
However, the cost of developing w/o mounting here in UK is quite prohibitive at 5GBP per roll.
Did a search and found that some shops in Sg still stock the E6 processing kit... may i know roughly how much and whether it's very troublesome to bring back to UK? cheers

[szekiat]

haha. Never ask me first.......ruby still stocks it now and then but it generally isn't value for money unless you have tens of rolls to develop. Also the E6 process is quite toxic i think and very temperature and time critical. I wouldn't risk my important slides with home processing. Just mail them home to process and get it sent back to you. At $5 a roll (or £1.80), its well worth it when you have a lot. I used to regularly send them back to my dad to process and mail it back to me. The turn around time is nearly 2 weeks though!

[LittleWolf]

Originally Posted by londonray Hey guys, just bought some Velvia 100F recently and was very pleased with the quality of the pictures.. However, the cost of developing w/o mounting here in UK is quite prohibitive at 5GBP per roll. Did a search and found that some shops in Sg still stock the E6 processing kit... may i know roughly how much and whether it's very troublesome to bring back to UK? cheers

As an alternative, Tetenal makes an E6 development kit. I think you can order it online in the UK from http://www.tetenal.co.uk/.

[Patryk]

Man, E6 processing is really troublesome..won't really recommend it unless you're super keen... do B/W instead! haha..

[londonray]

Originally Posted by Patryk Man, E6 processing is really troublesome..won't really recommend it unless you're super keen... do B/W instead! haha..

thanks... doing that already... not very good at it still... but... yah... like i said... dun wanna go cornwall shoot in BnW all the way... esp if the sunset is SUPERB... yups... but dev velvia is just tooooooo expensive here in london... maybe will just keep them... and send back to sg for developing... yups...