Slide film, process and mount.

[collieslave]

For many years I used Peak Imaging who were first class, but they have closed down! Can anyone recommend a lab who will process and mount 35mm slides? Or even just process the films? Any advice will be much  appreciated.

[gray1720]

Dunno if anywhere named here helps?

snappers-social-club.proboards.com/thread/62/who-use-colour-120

I used to use Peak for my colour 120 thankfully I found out they'd shut before I posted anything, I think a lot of people had stuff on the post never to be seen again.

[nimbus]

There is a problem now with mounting, afaik no lab now can offer a mounting service as the sole supplier in the UK of mounts has ceased to either exist or supply, I don't know which. Presumably the same were also those who repaired the machines. So it's out with the scissors! There are a number of labs still processing E6 films, including AG of Birmingham. Films are normally either returned uncut or cut into strips of six, I would consider the latter to be the better option as an uncut film has to be rolled up, thus putting a curl on the transparencies.

[steveandthedogs]

Mounts still available from www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk/ap-slide-mounts-glassless-35mm-cs-pack-of-100/p2776 and others.

This lot seem to have a fair reputation for processing ntphotoworks.com/product-category/film-processing-developing-scanning-2/

S

[nimbus]

Mar 23, 2023 7:44:43 GMT steveandthedogs said:

Mounts still available from www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk/ap-slide-mounts-glassless-35mm-cs-pack-of-100/p2776 and others.

This lot seem to have a fair reputation for processing ntphotoworks.com/product-category/film-processing-developing-scanning-2/

S

Mounts themselves are not to date a problem, I picked up a lot from Ebay at a low price. Labs though are no longer mounting from films they have processed. I haven't shot any reversal film for some years, there seems little point given the very high cost of doing so, I do still occasionally use colour neg or XP2.

[nimbus]

Mar 22, 2023 8:51:53 GMT gray1720 said:

Dunno if anywhere named here helps?

snappers-social-club.proboards.com/thread/62/who-use-colour-120

I used to use Peak for my colour 120 thankfully I found out they'd shut before I posted anything, I think a lot of people had stuff on the post never to be seen again.

My one experience with Peak was in the 1980s, I never used them again. 120 films severely scratched on the non-emulsion side, I complained and they initially claimed it could only have happened in the camera, which is actually impossible. No apology or anything else, so that was that.