High Quality Lab San Jose/South Bay to Process and Scan

[MindsEye]

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Hi All,
I am seeking a good quality lab for film processing and scanning in the South Bay Area of California. San Jose/Morgan Hill/Gilroy area would be ideal. Monterey/PG, Carmel, area are okay too. This would be for black and white and color neg/C-41 35mm. I would like a lab that can also do high resolution (min 6Kx4K) scans. I'm in the process of acquiring an M4-P but who knows, I may end up dusting off some of my other film cameras.

I know Bay Photo and used them in the past for my workshop participants' prints but they send their black and white film to an outside lab and it takes a few weeks.

If I find that shooting film again is as great as my nostalgic brain tells me then I may go back to souping my own black and white and fire up one of my scanners (inaccessible right now.) I may even set up a wet darkroom so my teenage daughter can experience the magic of the image appearing in the developer tray as I did around her age.

If this has been posted elsewhere, my apologies for the redundancy and please refer me to that thread. I did try a search but to no avail.

Thanks!
Joel

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[Churro]

Give Foto Expess a try: https://share.google/fumVQngjC3vOzDgCy

Give them a call and ask them about their different scanning options. I've been very happy with their scans on 120 color film. But for 35mm film scans I prefer to mail my film out to Richard Photo Lab in SoCal. 

 

[Einst_Stein]

Foto express is an excellent express consumer grade photo lab, a big contributor particularly for photo class students. For professional photographers, you have to try for yourself.

I would ask eBay photo. They should give you honest advice. There are other photo labs classified by internet but I have no experience with them, you can google to find out.

I know some professional photographers prefer photo lab for film dev and scan, by building mutual understandings so that the standard development (whatever it means) works excellent, I am not professional, and I am still in the stage that enjoy my own B&W development much better than done by others.