[toni-a]

Woooah, now that you mentioned it - I just checked the development costs for slide film locally - $30AUD (~$20USD).
I can't remember for sure, but I think this was like 5EUR back during my Germany era.

I still remember the last prices it was around 2$ for film development only, then you have to pay either for prints (0.15c per 10X15) or scanning  that depended on the resolution you needed, that was a time when 5MP was considered very high resolution.
I remember there was a bundle offer where for 10.000 LBP (6.6$) you have 36 10X15 prints plus a CD with photos in low resolution plus the negatives of course.