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Hello all! This is my first post and also I'm new to film photography as a whole. I was wondering if any of you have used "The Darkroom" in California to mail your film in to get delevoped and how you would rate them. I e had my last 2 rolls developed by Walgreens and I'll never go there again, I'd like to have my negatives but they don't give them to you with your prints. Thanks in advance!
 
Fjjjimenez said:
Hello all! This is my first post and also I'm new to film photography as a whole. I was wondering if any of you have used "The Darkroom" in California to mail your film in to get delevoped and how you would rate them. I e had my last 2 rolls developed by Walgreens and I'll never go there again, I'd like to have my negatives but they don't give them to you with your prints. Thanks in advance!
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I do not recommend them if you want pro quality images. And why wouldn't you? They are part of Swan Photo which is just a big consumer level processing house. I received images with weird drip marks, and 120 scans with linen like scan lines.
Their thing is that you download the images from a drop box type site. One time the site was down for over a week, but they would not compensate me for the delay, even though I had paid for the agreed upon service time.

But they are cheap, right? Nope. The pro quality labs I use are cheaper and give results that you will be amazed by. I use both northcoastphoto.com (who are in Carlsbad, CA) if I need E6 or B&W, or THEFINDLAB.com if I need C41 (regular colour film).
Only downside with thefindlab is that their turnaround can be up to 2 weeks. northcoast tends to be the same week.
 
Huss said:
I do not recommend them if you want pro quality images. And why wouldn't you? They are part of Swan Photo which is just a big consumer level processing house. I received images with weird drip marks, and 120 scans with linen like scan lines.
Their thing is that you download the images from a drop box type site. One time the site was down for over a week, but they would not compensate me for the delay, even though I had paid for the agreed upon service time.

But they are cheap, right? Nope. The pro quality labs I use are cheaper and give results that you will be amazed by. I use both northcoastphoto.com (who are in Carlsbad, CA) if I need E6 or B&W, or THEFINDLAB.com if I need C41 (regular colour film).
Only downside with thefindlab is that their turnaround can be up to 2 weeks. northcoast tends to be the same week.
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Thanks for the insight!!

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