CHANPHOTO LAB
Analogue film lab

Film processing, scanning, printing & darkroom hire.

C-41 colour in our dip & dunk machine and black & white developed by hand, with scans and prints made to order.

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The Chan Photo Lab building, a brick printing house in a London courtyard

What we do

Freshly processed colour negatives hanging to dry, handled with white gloves

C-41 colour

Processed in our dip & dunk machine. 35mm, 120 and 5x4.

From £7.20 →
Lifting a basket of loaded film reels out of the black and white dip and dunk tank

Black & white

Traditional hand developing, one tank at a time.

From £8.40 →
Scanning a roll of film on the Noritsu scanner at Chan Photo Lab

Scanning

From quick low-res roll scans up to 500MB-per-frame files.

See scanning sizes →
Contact printing frame under the enlarger in the darkroom

Darkroom & prints

Hire a darkroom, join a workshop, or order C-type and B&W prints.

From £48.00 →

How it works

01

Drop off or post

Bring your rolls in or post them to us with your name, email and what you'd like done.

02

We develop & scan

Colour through the dip & dunk, black & white by hand, then scanned or printed as you asked.

03

Get your images

Scans arrive by email, and your negatives are ready to collect from the lab.

From the lab

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A darkroom at Chan Photo Lab with a De Vere 504 enlarger and colour correction chart Working on a print together at an enlarger in one of the darkrooms Reviewing contact sheets and prints during a printing workshop Checking colour negatives on the lightbox Numbered rolls of Kodak Portra waiting to be processed Sorting film canisters ready for developing