True Black and White Film Developing

The Darkroom offers professional Black and White film developing, you can trust your 35mm, 120, medium and 8×10 large format black and white film to The Darkroom. Specializing in nearly all types and sizes of film, our Refrema dip & dunk processor maintains high professional photo lab standards with constant process control standards and maintained chemistry for optimized Black and White film processing. Our experienced film staff ensures professional and reliable processing results every time, adjusting processing times to the film manufacturer’s specifications for optimal contrast and density.

Starting as low as $12, The Darkroom can Process your Black and White film by mail.

Our experience ensures professional and reliable processing results every time

B&W Film Developing

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Film Developing How it works

Use our postage-paid mailer or your own, send us your black and white film and we’ll process it, scan your negatives, and upload your images for immediate viewing. You’ll also get your negatives returned in the mail along with your optional prints, photo DVD, or USB drive with your digital images. When adding prints, your images will be printed on True black and white prints with genuine ILFORD Black and White Silver Gelatin Photographic Paper.

The Darkroom provides state-of-the-art Dip & Dunk Black and White Film Processing equipment to ensure clean, precise, and reliable results every time.

True B&W Prints From Digital Files

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Print your digital files on genuine
ILFORD Black & White Silver Gelatin Photo Paper

The Darkroom can now print your digital files on genuine ILFORD Black and White Silver Gelatin Photographic Paper. We believe this is as close as you can get to a traditional B&W darkroom print from a digital file and has significant benefits when compared to B&W images produced from color processes.

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Black and White film developing

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Choose to have your images printed on genuine ILFORD Black and White Silver Gelatin Photographic Paper.


Prints with your Black and White Film Developing

The Darkroom will print your images on genuine ILFORD Black and White Silver Gelatin Photographic Paper. Many labs print your black and white images on color photo paper, giving your photo a color cast, but our True black and white prints produce a crisp, true black and white representation of your black and white file. Benefits include:

  • Prints have a consistent and neutral image tone (no color cast).
  • Strong blacks and detailed highlights.
  • Bright white base for stunning black and white photographs.
  • Superb quality and robustness.
  • Excellent batch-to-batch and print-to-print consistency.
  • No printing color profiles required.
  • With or without white borders.
  • Available in 4×6 to 10×15 sizes.
  • Glossy or Pearl surface.