Need to buy B&W film in Melbourne
Good day! New to this thread. A semi-serious question here. I'm staying in Melbourne, specifically around the Doncaster area. In recent days I decided to buy myself an old film P&S to experiment with B&W film.
The biggest mistake I made with this was to assume that I could get virtually any kind of film (for cheap) at Ebay. How wrong that was. I need ASA 400 film that can be easily developed at any shop. There's others that can only be developed using a special method and I don't know how practical they are.
Most of the Ebayers will not ship overseas. So I need to seek some help and advice from the folks here who still use film.
Where can I easily get B&W film at a reasonable price? I tried a few online websites and their prices look exhorbitant, in the order of AUD8 for a roll of film, although to be fair, it's good film, Ilford or Tri-X stuff. Are these typically the prices I need to contend with or can I actually get film at a cheaper price?
I don't exactly want to spend 100's of dollars on film alone.
Hope some kind folk here will be able to help, otherwise my B&W project will be dead even before I can get started.