It’s going to be really expensive to pay someone to develop and scan to disc if you’re planning on doing a lot of b&w photography. If you are serious about it you should think about DIY developing. Most of the fun is in the developing, it’s a really special past time, very relaxing and therapeutic, a good way to spend a Sunday morning. Set-up costs to get a processing tank, thermometer, couple of measuring cylinders, couple of cheap jugs, film canister opener, hanging clips etc were about $80 from memory. Chemicals on top of that (at least from memory I think the $80 was just the hardware) but it still works out pretty reasonable if you’re doing do be doing it regularly. I’m extravagant/lazy so I just use stock developer and don’t dilute so I could make it go a lot further if I wanted to. Bought a negative scanner years ago, which at the time was really expensive at about $900 but I think you can get them a lot cheaper now and get them built into flat bed scanners.

I got my negs back today from Brisbane Sounds. Some of the shots look like they could be actually ok. Getting scans done now … gosh it’s all very expensive.