richard_baines

<p>You're probably best off sticking it in the freezer if its PKR.</p>

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forgot to mention date (it was August 2008)

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I actually did this will a roll of K64 as well a few months ago - got 5 or 6 frames taken, popped it out of my EOS 30, used some black and white film then put the K64 back in. I suppose I got lucky, so you may as well, as there were no issues with frame lineups whatsoever - I got 36 perfect slides back! :D

Peak Imaging might make a profit on small orders, but they also receive plenty of large orders. When I got back from Canada I paid for 15 rolls of e-6 to be processed and mounted, the postage was still £2.50 - it would have cost them way more than that to send all those slides back to me. I remember at the time, that the cost difference between sending the slides to DLab7, weighted against having to wait up to 10 days and having the extra worry of film having to be sent an extra journey because Guernsey is offshore, was negligible, especially after the 15% discount I got from Peak Imaging for sending 15 rolls in at once.

 

Assuming sending the film to them costs about £1 if they didn't have freepost, you'd only be paying £1.50 for them to send film back to you which I think is pretty reasonable if your slides are mounted.

 

With regard to quality, I've found both labs to be about the same in occasional blips, and any slight cosmetic damage that results from Peak processing (I've only ever had a few little black line smudges on one or two rolls) is usually more repairable in photoshop than that from other labs.

 

Its also quite convenient being able to send them other types of film, the order I'm expecting from them comprises of 1 x 35mm Velvia, 1 x 35mm Delta 3200 and 1 x 120 roll HP5+. I don't know of any other labs where I could mix film types as easily and cheaply as this, and still qualify for discounts (the multiple roll discount works even if you mix formats or developer requirements I think).

 

What I'd really love would be if Peak Imaging took up K-14 processing for Kodak so I didn't have a 10 day wait for Kodachrome 64 any more!

Peak Imaging - its more expensive than DLAB7, £5.19 I think for dev/mount, and they charge £2.50 postage, but its a freepost address so you only pay on the return journey (as opposed to just the send journey like Dlab7). If you only need sleeving though its somewhere around £3.60 I think, and their bulk discounts are very good. Very quick turnaround, when I dispatch on monday I get the slides back wednesday.