The Darkroom experience

<p>Simply fantastic! Mailed them 3 rolls on a Saturday, they acknowledged receipt next Tuesday and had them up online the following day. The quality, at least online, is superb. Here is an example.</p>

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<p>There is only one caveat. For the price I am willing to pay, I get a paltry 1.1 MB scan. Just to see how much I can squeeze out of it, I am having it printed in 8x10 size and will report back with results. I used to get 6 meg scans from Costco when they were still in the film business but the reality of it is that I almost never printed anything. I did get the negatives though and Costco still prints from negatives. Oh, and the camera was the lovely Yashica FX-103.</p>

<p>Look at your picture and went to their website. Price is high. I failed to see what's good about them. </p>

<p>"What's good about them" is that their quality is fantastic. As for their prices, it's no longer the 1990s. The days of super-cheap processing gradually disappeared and are now almost gone because there is no longer economy in volume for labs. The Darkroom's prices are competitive, and certainly not "high" considering the new reality. Yes, you still have price leaders such Walmart or Clark Labs, but they're hardly professional quality, and are unreliable at best, although Walmart's (Dwayne's) E6 is still one of the last great bargains. Costco has been closing more and more of their labs. The reality is that analog photography, at least as far as film and processing, is more expensive.</p>

<p> $10 for developing, scanning, CD, and free mailers. You must know someplace that beats them.</p>

<p>Dwayne is less expensive with develop and scan. I don't need the low res scan and they are useless for me so it only cost me $3.99 to develop a roll with Dwayne and they do good work.</p>