Where have all the E6 labs gone

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<p>My lab for the last 17 years is closing the E6 next week.<br>

Now I' was wondering where anybody else is having their slides processed.</p>

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<p>In my sink.<br>

I maintain it won't be the film producers which nullify the medium, but the end processors. Finding e6 labs is easy compared to medium and especially large format neg developers. But this tune has been sung before, and will continue. </p>

<p>By mail. Actually my local lab still does E6 in 2 hours but most people are not that fortunate.</p>

<p>At one home the local E6 lab died long ago; I bought a Phase One can back then in 1996. Bringing up the issue of dying labs long ago here I got laughed at; many had them still next door. For rush jobs there is next day air fees both ways; and maybe a rush fees at the mail order lab. You may or may not be able to tack these fees on a clients bill; your competitor might be digital and not have these costs. Just finding out that E6 labs are dying off is like discovering Britney Spears; izones; or that George Bush was president. Labs dying off has occured for over a decade now; one has mailorder or home processing as choices when a local lab dies off.</p>

<p>I've been lucky that my local camera store still sells slide film and does the processing in 2 hours. They have it in 35 and 120 formats. And a few 4x5 films.</p>

I am very lucky that I have nearby a lab that runs E6 and C41 several times a workday, in Basel, Switzerland. (www.chromobyte.ch)

 

 

I very much hope they have enough clients to survive in the future. Recently I had to have processed some shots in another part of Switzerland, and I just found a lab that runs two times a week E6 and two times C41...

<p>Hi Markus. I was in the same situation; my trusted lab closed down their developing operation when their E6 equipment broke. I now use Denver Digital Imaging, also known as The Slide Printer. They provide free mailers and their prices are competitive, if not cheaper, than most others. For example, my local camera store will develop a roll of 120 for $12 while Denver Digital will process a roll for $4.95 (with a $10 minimum). For 4x5 they charge $2 a sheet. They also do really great printing.<br /><br>

The bottom line, of course, is the quality of the processing. Denver Digital is absolutely <em>great</em> . I have always been pleased with their work. Their turnaround time is very good too. Here is a <a href="http://theslideprinter.com/">LINK</a> to their home page. Regards.</p>

<p>Hello Jack and Walt...would you guys drop a couple of names my way.</p>

<p>Thank you so much Walter for the link ... I will give the guys a shot.</p>

<p>What about getting a little E6 lab list together just for the US...<br>

or even world wide... ?</p>

<p>The guys that I have been using down here in Miami ( the Colorhouse )<br>

will continue C41 up to 8x10.</p>

<p> I am based in Houston, the 4th largest city in the USA. We seem to be down to ONE lab (A-Z Photo Lab) that will process large format films, either B&W or E-6. No one will print from a negative or transparency to paper.</p>

<p>I use JW Photolabs in Raleigh, NC</p>

<p>http://www.jwphotolabs.com</p>

<p>You can go to B&H and just type in slide mailer in the search box and find mailers for the Fuji lab and A&I.</p>

<p>We have E6 labs in Dallas, Houston, my town of Austin, and I think there is still one in San Antonio.</p>

<p>Lynn</p>

<p>Here is an excellent lab:</p>

<p>Chromatics in Nashville, TN</p>

<p>http://www.chromatics.com</p>

<p>Excellent lab in Santa Fe that's busier than ever:</p>

<p>http://www.visionsphotolab.com/e6.html</p>

<p>In Central Illinois, <strong>Better Image</strong> runs a great, super tight E-6 line. They have been there 20 years.<br>

Champaign, IL.<br>

Mail 44 E. University Ave Champaign, Il 61820 or call 217-352-0213<br>

Talk to Terry. He's great!</p><div></div>

<p>In the DC area it's <a href="http://www.dodgechrome.com/">Dodge Chrome</a>, they do outstanding work and mail-orders also.</p>

<p>In Canada Ed Burtynsky owns the last dip and dunk lab in the country.<br>

www.torontoimageworks.com</p>