UK 35mm Fiilm Processing Recommendations

Hello Group

I am interested in other peoples recommendations on where to get 35mm film
processed. I have been using Jessops until now, and have got on well with
them until my local branch lost my photos.

Ideally, I would like a reputable, reliable mail order company who will
process the film to a good standard, at a competitive price. Free film is
not a priority because I like to use my own.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance. Cheers.

Yeh - accept Jessop's apologies and attempts to make amends and IMHO stick
with them

If u have a choice of Jessop's near where you live - go to the one with
inhouse image processing

There's probably less chance of things going adrift that way

Arty

"Paul" wrote in message
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Hello Group

I am interested in other peoples recommendations on where to get 35mm film
processed. I have been using Jessops until now, and have got on well with
them until my local branch lost my photos.

Ideally, I would like a reputable, reliable mail order company who will
process the film to a good standard, at a competitive price. Free film is
not a priority because I like to use my own.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance. Cheers.

Yeh - accept Jessop's apologies and attempts to make amends and IMHO stick
with them

Yes. Jessop's quality, i heard, differs from branch to branch but my experience
with the one i tried was really good.

In my experience bonsuprint was absolute crap; bad pictures, and as if that was
not enough, scratches too!! Truprint's £0.99 service for the 24 was suprisingly
good. I suggest you give them a try and see if it's adequate. I use them for
fun when i get a classic camera and want to play with it.

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:23:23 +0100, "Paul" wrote:

Hello Group

I am interested in other peoples recommendations on where to get 35mm film
processed. I have been using Jessops until now, and have got on well with
them until my local branch lost my photos.

Ideally, I would like a reputable, reliable mail order company who will
process the film to a good standard, at a competitive price. Free film is
not a priority because I like to use my own.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance. Cheers.

Metro Imaging
Peak Imaging
Transpacolor
BPD Photech
DirectFoto

They are all online and you can find them by Googling at google.co.uk

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Hecate - The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:52:36 GMT, "Artie" wrote:

Yeh - accept Jessop's apologies and attempts to make amends and IMHO stick
with them

As long as you are a consumer

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Hecate - The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui

On 03 Oct 2004 22:32:51 GMT, (Sabineellen) wrote:


Yeh - accept Jessop's apologies and attempts to make amends and IMHO stick
with them

Yes. Jessop's quality, i heard, differs from branch to branch but my experience
with the one i tried was really good.

In my experience bonsuprint was absolute crap; bad pictures, and as if that was
not enough, scratches too!! Truprint's £0.99 service for the 24 was suprisingly
good. I suggest you give them a try and see if it's adequate. I use them for
fun when i get a classic camera and want to play with it.


I've had extremely good results from my local Snappy Snaps but they
are really quite expensive. I'd be as cheap sending the film away to a
pro/semi-pro lab like Peak Imaging or Loxley Colour however for
sameday processing they are great.

I've had mixed resuls from Bonusprint/Truprint. Sometimes excellent
and sometimes really not that great.

These days, for colour, if I'm not too fussy about how long it takes I
use my local Klick on their 3 or 4 day option -- the prints aren't
absolutely perfect but they are also consistently not-bad and cheap.

Matt

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 01:32:01 +0100, Hecate wrote:

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:23:23 +0100, "Paul" wrote:

Hello Group

I am interested in other peoples recommendations on where to get 35mm film
processed. I have been using Jessops until now, and have got on well with
them until my local branch lost my photos.

Ideally, I would like a reputable, reliable mail order company who will
process the film to a good standard, at a competitive price. Free film is
not a priority because I like to use my own.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance. Cheers.

Metro Imaging
Peak Imaging
Transpacolor
BPD Photech
DirectFoto

They are all online and you can find them by Googling at google.co.uk

--

Also, Loxley Colour in Glasgow are excellent. I've only used them for
black and white medium format but the prints were produced quickly and
to a high standard -- and the prices were good too (around the same or
slightly less then Peak Imaging).

(http://www.loxleycolour.com/)

Matt

"Paul" wrote:
I am interested in other peoples recommendations on where to get 35mm film
processed. I have been using Jessops until now, and have got on well with
them until my local branch lost my photos.

Ideally, I would like a reputable, reliable mail order company who will
process the film to a good standard, at a competitive price. Free film is
not a priority because I like to use my own.

Any recommendations?


I suspect your concept of "a competitive price" is far below what it
costs to do the job properly. And therein lies the problem.

People want cheap D+P. People want good D+P. The problem is, they
want both at the same time.

"A competitive price" doesn't sit happily with "to a good standard".

You should decide which is your priority, then ask the question again.
If a good standard is your priority I would strongly recommend you try
Peak Imaging. But you probably won't like their prices.

Peak imaging, every time.
"Paul" wrote in message
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Hello Group

I am interested in other peoples recommendations on where to get 35mm film
processed. I have been using Jessops until now, and have got on well with
them until my local branch lost my photos.

Ideally, I would like a reputable, reliable mail order company who will
process the film to a good standard, at a competitive price. Free film is
not a priority because I like to use my own.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance. Cheers.

Thank you all for your posts.

Peak Imaging is a company which I haven't heard about before, I will take a
look at them.

Thank you for your feedback.




"Paul" wrote in message
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Hello Group

I am interested in other peoples recommendations on where to get 35mm film
processed. I have been using Jessops until now, and have got on well with
them until my local branch lost my photos.

Ideally, I would like a reputable, reliable mail order company who will
process the film to a good standard, at a competitive price. Free film is
not a priority because I like to use my own.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance. Cheers.