The sky is falling again (another processing lab out of business)

[citizen99]

Further to this thread http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156483

After sending off my latest film for C41 processing to Club35 in London, UK, I find that they have gone out of business. No e-mail to notify their customers :bang: . Nothing vital on the film, but an irritation, and I've no idea yet whether the Post Office will have the gumption to return it.

 

[charjohncarter]

I've had two drop out in the last year (USA).

 

[kshapero]

I've had two drop out in the last year (USA).

Which ones?

 

[raid]

I mailed my film to Dwayne's. Developing and scanning was OK.

 

[SaveKodak]

If you're in the USA just use The FIND Lab, Indie Film Lab, or Richard Photo Lab.

 

[citizen99]

Further to this thread http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156483

After sending off my latest film for C41 processing to Club35 in London, UK, I find that they have gone out of business. No e-mail to notify their customers :bang: . Nothing vital on the film, but an irritation, and I've no idea yet whether the Post Office will have the gumption to return it.

Kudos to the Royal Mail ! They have returned my film "addressee gone away" 🙂 .

 

[zuikologist]

IIt send my film to Photoexpress in Hull for process and scan. Good quality and price and quick turnaround.

 

[citizen99]

IIt send my film to Photoexpress in Hull for process and scan. Good quality and price and quick turnaround.

Thanks for the tip 🙂 .

EDIT: Oh, just checked them out ...
"We do not develop 120, E6, or B&W films (except C41 B&W)."

 

[lrochfort]

Palm Labs in Birmingham are excellent and very reasonably priced. Things like push processing are free. They print on Kodak paper too which makes a nice change to all the contrasty Fuji junk out there. Steve who works there is a really nice helpful guy too.

 

[Rob-F]

It's really not so bad. Apparently there are enough mail-order labs. The added expense of postage can be offset by mailing several rolls at a time, and if the lab one has been using is any distance away, and the post office is closer, there can be a saving in time and gas. The post office here is five minutes away, and the lab is 25 minutes. And the lab takes two round trips: one to deliver, and one to pick it up. Only one for the post office, since they deliver the processed film to your door. Ten minutes total vs. a hundred minutes for me.

I sent a trial roll to AgX in Michigan. The turn-around was fast--one week--and my Velvia was perfect.

 

[citizen99]

In the meantime, I'd finished another film, which I have sent to snapshotservices.com of Bournemouth. I've had excellent work from them previously.

 

[mani]

The great thing is that - by the very nature of this shakeout - some labs emerge with a much higher amount of business. My local pro lab in Stockholm now has far more work than they ever experienced, simply because of this concentration of available labs.