London Labs (preferably W1 ish)

[grahamc]

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Hello everyone 

I’m going to be in London briefly this week and hoping to drop some films off to a decent lab.

I’m only passing through this time for half a day and need to collect something from “The Classic Camera” store near British Museum.  So I’m hoping to find a lab nearby, or at least convenient to get to from W1 .

I’m not averse to travel across London to an extent but will be pushed for time is all  

I’ll be back there in a couple of weeks for a longer stay so could collect negs then. 

Any recommendations of London’s finest would be appreciated  !

Cheers 

Graham 


 

 

 

[pippy]

Metro Imaging, 32 Great Sutton Street, is a short bus journey (or a 15 / 20 min walk) away. They are one of the best processing houses in London.

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I have no affiliation with the place but have been using them since 1987 (although not often recently it has to be said).

Philip.

Edited July 4, 2022 by pippy

[grahamc]

2 hours ago, pippy said:

Metro Imaging, 32 Great Sutton Street, is a short bus journey (or a 15 / 20 min walk) away. They are one of the best processing houses in London.

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

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Their website;

https://metroimaging.co.uk/

I have no affiliation with the place but have been using them since 1987 (although not often recently it has to be said).

Philip.

Perfect ! Thanks Phillip this looks exactly what I need. 
 

[pippy]

3 hours ago, grahamc said:

Perfect ! Thanks Phillip this looks exactly what I need...

Not wishing to be the Tempting Devil on your shoulder, Graham, but just a tiny bit further to the east along Great Sutton Street from Metro and across the road you will find Red Dot Cameras at 86 Goswell Road...

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[jonnyboy]

Aperture it's VERY close to the British Museum and they very professional. I'm not entirely sure they will do a 'Same Day' delivery tho.

https://www.apertureprinting.com/

(( they also have a lot of nice used cameras....good stuff!  ))

 

[grahamc]

9 hours ago, jonnyboy said:

Aperture it's VERY close to the British Museum and they very professional. I'm not entirely sure they will do a 'Same Day' delivery tho.

https://www.apertureprinting.com/

(( they also have a lot of nice used cameras....good stuff!  ))

 

Thanks very much .    I don't doubt Aperture are good, I popped in and they were lovely however it was a few days turnaround on film and those timescales didn't suit my circumstances at the time.    When I was in London, for colour I used Bayeux in the end.  Great service, premium dev / scanning quality and either same-day or next morning delivery of scans.  Visting was like walking into a gallery as they have prints of work they have done for a variety of well-known photographers including some iconic music photographs.  Although premium pricing as well. 

For B&W I used 'The Black & White Basement' in St Johns Wood, who hand develop in XTol (a few days turnaround) .  I decided to go with them as XTol is closer to what I use at home (D76) and most other labs seem to be using universal developer these days. 

Overall was really impressed by these labs and all photographic-related shops I dropped into (inc. Aperture) whilst I was on my holiday 

Edited August 28, 2022 by grahamc