C41 and E6 Processing in San Francisco

[Ron Marshall]

Can anyone recommend a lab in San Francisco or Oakland or San Jose for C41 and E6 processing.

[Guy Tal]

The New Lab in SF or Calypso in Santa Clara are both excellent.

Guy

[Hiro]

Another vote for Calypso Imaging (www.calypsoinc.com/).

I used Calypso by mail order for the last two large batches (30-50 sheets each) and am very happy with the results. I'd like to support local labs and still use them, but they charge $4 per sheet (E-6) compared with $1.30 with Calypso (and free shipping for a volume order). With some volume, it's not really a competition price-wise. The experience has been very satisfying.

When I visited Death Valley around Christmas, I took an order form with me and mailed the films to Calypso from Las Vegas. It worked well. Turn-around has been about 2 weeks from the Detroit area.

[Marco Annaratone]

New Lab in San Francisco. Exceptional service and quality.

[Vijay Nebhrajani]

I use Calypso all the time - I live less than 4 miles from them and they have been consistently excellent.

[Ron Marshall]

Thanks for the help. The west coast processing fees are very reasonable.

[Damian]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Light Waves. They've got stores in both SF and Berkeley and run up to 8x10 on BW and E6 and up to 12x20 on C41. I know for a fact that they run all of Richard Misrachs film and his huge expanses of open sky demand perfect processing or you'll see mottling.

[Matt Blaze]

I've also had terrific experiences with Light Waves in Berkeley for 120 E6 (I've not used them for 4x5). I believe their E6 is done in Berkeley and they send their C41 and B&W to their SF outlet.

[Dan Baumbach]

Add Cantoo in Berkeley to your list.

- Dan

[Christopher Hansen]

I use Calypso for E-6. I don't believe they do C41 processing anymore.