No, film is not dead. In fact it has been making a bit of a comeback.
At The Photo Finishers, we never stopped processing and printing film. We still process film the traditional way with chemicals, and we always return your negatives to you after processing.
Did you know that some companies use what is called a dry process to develop your negatives? What that means is your film is essentially destroyed and the scanned images are what you get as “originals”, you do not have negatives returned to you, only digital files on media.
Why is dry film processing bad?
Because the negatives you create are your “Master Original”. For example, let’s say on your roll of film, you have captured the perfect photograph, the one image you have always dreamed of creating, the image that all your planning and studying and skills finally came together to create your masterpiece.
You have it dry processed with no negatives back. The largest size you can EVER make that image is whatever native size that file was scanned, or saved on your media as.
If you have it processed traditionally and get your negatives returned to you, those negatives hold all the magic, all the data you will ever need. The can be rescanned to a higher resolution to capture even more detail and chroma. In other words you can go back to the well for near infinite drinks of water, with the dry process method, you only get one glass of water. That’s it, one chance.
- C-41 Color Film Processing –Kodak Disk film, 110 mm, 126 mm, 135 mm , APS or Advantix (24 mm) , 120 mm and 220 mm sizes in house
- Traditional Black and White Film Developing (135 and 120 sizes in house)
- E-6 Slide processing (135 and 120 sizes) – Currently not available, but we can digitize and print from slides of any size. Sizes include 110mm, 126mm, 135mm, Medium and Large format.
- How long does it take to get film developed? For color 35mm film (C41 process), normally next day to two day turnaround. Times will vary depending on film type, process, and the quantity of rolls in store at given time. We take the time to give each roll a full service treatment.
- What about really old film that was found? Chances are we can process your film. In some cases (Process C-22 for example), chemicals are no longer available, but we can provide an alternative processing method to deliver images from the film. If you are not sure what you have, please feel free to call, or stop by so we can see the type of film and provide you with options for processing.
Standard Film Printing Services
- All our processing is done “in house”.
- Locket to 24X36 Printing from any digital source (CD, DVD, Flash Drive, email etc.)
- Locket to 24X36 Printing from any film source Color, B&W or Slide (110, 126, 135, 120 [6.45, 6X6 and 6X7], 4X5 etc.)
- Print Mounting and Finishing services available as well as enhancement and restoration services.