Originally posted by thesaxman547 
Hey everyone, I'm Ted from Boston. I'm mainly a performing musician and student, but I'm very excited about diving into photography-one of my life long ambitions. My aunt gave me a Pentax K2 with 3 rolls of BW400CN film for Christmas.
I had a bad experience with my first roll of film but finished up the second two rolls. Should I bring the film to any place like CVS or send it out, or do it myself? I also saw some people on this forum talking about the Kodak Ektar 100 film and it looked good so I ordered 4 rolls from B & H. Would CVS develop that film too? If it's cheaper and better to develop my own I would definitely like to get into that.
BW400CN is a "
chromogenic" film. Basically it's color film, developed in color film chemistry, but it produces b&w negatives and prints. All color negative films, including Ektar 100, and all chromogenic films are developed in the same C-41 chemistry and any shop that still develops and prints 35mm filmn should be able to handle them.
If you want to try a traditional b&w film, like Tri-X you'll probably have to develop it yourself as very few CVS-type places are set up to handle it. That would involve an investment in a changing bag, chemicals, a tank and reel, and so on. Personally I always found film developing to be the drudgery of photography. Your mileage may vary.
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