UK MailOrder Lab for 35mm dev plus machine prints

Fintan · Jan 2, 2008

I'm looking for recommendations from our UK based members for a lab that will do mail order 35mm b+w film developing and RC machine prints [i.e. 6x4 etc]

Google is throwing me up all sorts of junk :rolleyes:

Fintan

Akki14 · Jan 2, 2008

B&W or colour?

Fintan · Jan 2, 2008

OMG I forgot to say its B+W, sorry.

Akki14 · Jan 2, 2008

I was going to say... I don't send off my B&W stuff but I could recommend a lab for colour machine prints and dev

Justin Cormack · Jan 2, 2008

The only such service I know of is the Ilford branded one (its not actually done by Ilford).

http://www.ilfordphoto.com/wheretobuy/page.asp?n=145

Fintan · Jan 2, 2008

Thanks Justin, Ilford only do UK mail order sadly.

pentaxuser · Jan 2, 2008

Fintan. Have you looked in Amateur Photographer and even better B&W Mag for the adverts. They all of course mention prices in £s. I have no idea whether they'd consider payment in euros. I suppose they hadn't considered any inquiries from the Republic. There would clearly be no problem with N Ireland. You might only be 1 metre over the border but we're divided by a currency which we once weren't.

Just a thought.

pentaxuser

GeoffHill · Jan 2, 2008

www.digitalab.co.uk in newcastle provide this service, but its quite expensive. I've not tried them, so I can't give a personal recommendation

Allan Swindles · Jan 2, 2008

Try www.peak-imaging.co.uk, I've not used them for B/W but excellent for C41 and E6.
Anyone know what happened to A. H. Leach in Yorkshire?

coigach · Jan 3, 2008

http://www.the-darkroom.co.uk/

Cheers,
Gavin

Lol999 · Jan 3, 2008

I live near, and am going to try Peak-Imaging. I'm just pushing a roll of Tri-X to 1600 asa and e-mailed them for details of how they would handle the processing. They got back to me within 30 minutes with an answer from one of their film technicians. In the next week or so I should be able to give a review.
Forgot to mention I have tried Peter Winter in the UK mail order and they gave good results for B&W.
Cheers, Lol

RobC · Jan 3, 2008

not easy to find anywhere that will do dev and machine prints. But here's a suggestion. Get dev and scan to CD done. Then when you get CD upload to the following site. They print on fuji crystal archive at 10p a print for the size you want and if you do a couple of tests to find the right colour tint for the images, then you can produce very slightly warm tone images and the quality is pretty good, especially considering the price.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/services.html

http://www.metroimaging.co.uk/prices/B&W_prices.asp

http://www.swcl.co.uk/processing/photo_printing1.html

http://www.spectrumphotolabs.co.uk/content/black_white.htm

http://www.spectrumphoto.co.uk/colour_printing/index.html

Fintan · Jan 3, 2008

Thanks for all that very useful info. I'll do more research with those links.

I'd love to know how you get on Lol, please update us when you get your prints.

Thanks again

Fintan

Simon R Galley · Jan 10, 2008

Dear All,

If you check our website www.ilfordphoto.com you will see a special offer regarding our NEW process and print service, as pointed out it is only the UK at the moment, but await further developments ( no pun intended )

Simon ILFORD photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

Fintan · Jan 10, 2008

Simon R Galley said:
as pointed out it is only the UK at the moment, but await further developments

i'm awaiting, i'm awaiting.....

Matt5791 · Jan 11, 2008

Fintan - try Palm Laboratory in Birmingham - this is my local lab and I know them well.

They will print B&W on RA4 machine prints or they also do package deals on real B&W prints. Really nice people. Ask for Steve or Simon and say Matt Wells recommended them.

www.palmlabs.co.uk

Lol999 · Jan 16, 2008

Hi Fintan, here are two from peak Imaging off Tri-X pushed to 1600 ASA:

I'm impressed with the level of grain. Note they were took with a CV 25mm Skopar lens which is quite contrasty. I posted them Friday morning and got them back today (Wednesday). Cost of processing, uprate, scan to cd and postage a total of £10.50. If I could only take a decent picture it would be worth it!

Cheers, Lol

Fintan · Jan 16, 2008

Thanks for that Lol, seems a good service. Thanks for the review.

Fintan · Feb 8, 2008

Simon R Galley said:
Dear All,

If you check our website www.ilfordphoto.com you will see a special offer regarding our NEW process and print service, as pointed out it is only the UK at the moment, but await further developments ( no pun intended )

Simon ILFORD photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

Is this going to wait till the Focus 2008 trade show Simon ?

I see the PDF on your site has an option for international return postage

Fintan · Mar 4, 2008

Simon R Galley said:
Dear All,

If you check our website www.ilfordphoto.com you will see a special offer regarding our NEW process and print service, as pointed out it is only the UK at the moment, but await further developments ( no pun intended )

Simon ILFORD photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

Any further developments to report yet Simon?

Prarry · Mar 4, 2008

LAB35 Imaging

Can't vouch for the B&W, but E6 and C41 are good, so would assume B&W to be similar..? As they have a special price for hand prints I assume the usual sizes are machine made.
+44 (0) 1908 371-516
http://www.lab35imaging.co.uk

Simon R Galley · Mar 4, 2008

Dear All,

Our in house lab is up and running, I had a roll done this week and the quality ( IMHO ) is fabulous
we will also push and pull, see our web site for details and to drop down a mailer.

Simon ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited

Fintan · Mar 10, 2008

Simon, is the Freepost address applicable to international senders?

If not, can you please post the address?

And do you know the turn-around time {approx}

Fintan

Fintan · Mar 10, 2008

I checked with Ilford HT and the address for non UK is;

ILFORD PROCESS & PRINTS,
Harmon Technology Ltd.,
Ilford Way,
Mobberley,
Knutsford,
Cheshire,
WA16 7JL,
England

UK MailOrder Lab for 35mm dev plus machine prints

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