Processing in San Jose CA

[Don Harpold]

Hello, I just moved into San Jose CA and need to find a lab that can

do medium and large format developing. I went into a photo place

today and was told "yeah we can do it but we will need to send it to

Utah" ??? If any one can tell me of a place to do B&W and slide I

would appreciate it.

 

Thanks

Don

[jbq]

The dark room (San Carlos, on El Camino one block north of Holly Street) does same-day B&W and C41, and overnight E6 (they don't actually do E6 locally, I think they send it to a lab in the City).

 

http://www.thedarkroom.com/

 

I'm sure you'll find a place close to San Jose, though.

[Spearhead]

<a href="http://www.calypsoinc.com">Calypso<a/> in Sunnyvale is probably the closest lab to San Jose.

[cxc]

For 4x5 e-6, Calypso is the cheapest I have found by far, check out www.calypsoinc.com. I do it through the mail.

[Don Harpold]

Thanks everybody, I'll give Calypso a try.

 

Thanks

Don

[doug_brightwell1]

Calypso is a well known lab, and does a lot of LightJect work. I used to use them for

120/220 color negative until I got a roll back that had undeveloped areas on it. I

asked for an explaination, and they told me that in their dip and dunk tank, they

attach both ends of 220 film to clips and let the looped middle hang down. With 120,

they attach one end to the clips and let the entire roll dangle straight down into the

solution. The tanks aren't deep enough to do that with 220. The result is that

sometimes, the doubled over 220 film comes in contect with itself and sticks

together, preventing chemicals from reaching those areas and causing blotches. It

doesn't happen often, but the deal breaker for me was that they seemed to think it

was no big deal. They didn't seem sufficiently horrified that they had screwed up a

roll of my film, and that their method was prone to that kind of problem. They

seemed too matter of fact about it. Like it was partly the fault of how thin 220 film is.

(Not sure there's any difference in actualy thickness of the stock.)

 

Bottomline, they knew their development method sometimes causes splotches, and

that wasn't sufficient reason to change it or pre-warn customers. So I looked

elsewhere for processing. Wouldn't think twice about using their Lightject or other

digital services though.

[don_doyle]

Superior Color Labs on Lincoln Ave. in Willow Glen