Reply #4: Interesting. So there's a big difference between B&W and color?

[Xithras]

I was under the impression that the process simply involved placing the negs in chemical A for x minutes, chemical B for x minutes, and then rinsing and hanging.

Basically, I'm trying to figure out how to keep my cost per shot down right now. I buy my film by the case so my film costs alone are about .12-.15 cents each (unless I break out the Provia...then it gets a LOT more expensive) which is acceptable to me, but I'm spending about $7 a roll to have a decent photo lab develop my film which is adding about 30 cents a shot on top of that. I guess I could start taking my film to the cheapie labs, but I'm worried that most one hour jobbies have no clue what they're doing if I ask them to push or pull a roll.

Any other ideas on how to get the costs down?