Where do you send your film for processing?
I was informed by my favorite lab (Image 4 Concepts, which I learned of from an ad in Trains magazine) as of December 23 will no longer be processing E6.
I very much would like to find a new lab. Anybody here still shoot film, and if so, where do you send it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you wish, you may respond to me via email if you prefer.
Thanks in advance,
Jim
Jim,
I don’t shoot much E6 anymore, usually only 4x5 stuff. Still, I take mine to a local lab here in Denver, Reed Photo Imaging. I’ve had tremendous luck with them, and have yet to be upset with any of their work. They’re a bit pricey (they serve some of the top names in the Denver area, like John Fielder), but not awfully so. I’m not sure if you can mail stuff to them or not, but you might be able to check it out at www.reedphoto.com
Stephanie is my contact, but all the people up front are really helpful. Hope this helps a little bit. If I can do anything else, drop me an e-mail.
Right now I have a photography shop right down the street from my house. I drop it off there and they send it out (to where I don’t know). But before I moved here I lived out in the sticks and sent all my stuff to Seattle film works. I don’t ever recall haveing a bad experience with them and they sent me a free new roll of film for every one I had them develop.
A&I Los Angeles. Great pro lab. Get their mailers thru B&H in NYC.
When I lived in LA I had A&I do all my slides. Never had a bad experience with them either.
Jim:
You can buy Fuji processors from either Adorama (www.adorama.com) or B&H (www.bhphotovideo.com) and send your slide film, either Fuji or Ektachrome to the Fuji processing lab.
You could also buy Kodak processing mailers and send your E 6 processing slide film to the lab that handles all of Kodak’s slide film processing in Parsons, KS, but it seems to me the Kodak processing lab takes longer than Fuji. Unfortunately, one of the slides in the last 2 rolls of Kodachrome which I had to have processed in Parsons, KS (they arethe only lab that can process Kodachrome) wound up with a pink patch on the ground but not on the DART Light Rail Car, but the operation in Parsons, KS was just starting so I don’t know how good their quality control is.
Why is the processing lab you have been using discontinuing processing of
E 6 slide film?
They said it was due to the lack of demand due to so many people switching to digital; they claim that the chemicals needed to process E6 were too expensive for the amount of film they were processing.
To everyone that replied: I now have renewed hope that I will be able to shoot slides during those “special occassions”. Thank you very much!!![^][tup][bow]