Developing: For Real

I recommend using Richard Photo Lab to develop and scan your film. End of story, no questions asked, forever and ever amen. They are not the cheapest lab on the block. They are the best lab on the block.

Richard Photo Lab is amazing at treating everyone who works with them the same way. Whether you’re Jonathan Canlas or Jonathan Fanless, you’ll have the same customer experience with RPL. Yes, RPL is expensive, but you get what you pay for: little to no time behind the computer fidgeting to make your images look good.

Get the RPL medium scans at the time of developing to print up to 11x14, and large scans if you regularly sell enlargements to clients. (This is much cheaper than sending a single neg back to RPL, paying for drum scanning, and then paying to have the neg returned to you via FedEx. Just err on the side of large scans if you regularly sell big prints.)