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Many of you probably have seen Analogue Wonderland for buying films, well now they've opened up their own lab for development. They've just started so only B&W is on the website right now but I think over the next week colour will be up. They offer 35mm, 120, and 110 with "more on the way".

Pricing wise - colour or B&W:

Processing:
  • 35mm - £6
  • 120 - £7
  • 110 - £7
  • Disposable camera - £6
Scanning is in addition:
  • Standard (2MB) - £5
  • Premium (5MB) - £8
  • Premium TIFF (25MB) - £10
Plus £5 (£6 for 120) to get the lovely sprockets on your scans.

Tracked Royal Mail postage is free there and back.

If you purchase development when you buy film you'll get 10% off development - including the scan options. So a 35mm from above becomes £5.30+£4.50 std. scans.

Site: https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/collections/film-developing

I'm interested to see what colour film pricing will be like. I use filmdev for mine, £6 for development and medium scans (~3MB), plus I pay for postage there, usually do 3-4 films at a time and do pay small parcel, so about £7/roll all in. Filmdev have also started B&W development and it's £10 dev/medium scans. Cheaper than AW, but it's good to have options and AW prices are still competitive.
 
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It would be helpful if they gave us the pixel dimensions of the scan, or better still some samples like FilmDev does. I'm not sure what they mean by 'MB' for the jpegs - file size at some arbitary compression level, or the size of the tiff you'd get if you save it as uncompressed, etc? Are those 8-bit tiffs? Are they using tiff compression?
 
I thought the free postage both ways was a nice touch and it makes it competitive, but it will skew "face value" comparisons as most sites advertise their dev ex-postage (AG pay to return, Filmdev pay to send).

That said - B&W dev is very reasonably priced but as mentioned above, those scan sizes aren't very helpful. "Large" (jpeg) scans from Filmdev are 33Mb and 4500 x 6800 but I have no clue how that compares to the above. Also they seem to have the same annoyance of scanning your neg at a set resolution no matter what size the negative is. Pretty much negates the point of shooting MF if you're going to use their scans. That's a "feature" of all the developers I've tried though, so is likely a scanner setting.

I too will be interested to see colour prices. My standard go-to is Filmdev with large scans at £8/roll plus I usually send 3-4 films in one go. However if they pick up E6 processing they will have my interest as AG won't be getting my business any more.
 
I’ve sent them an email asking if they could clarify the resolution of scans and post example files. They’ve always been good with feedback just depends if they ever get round to it.
 
Harlequin565 said:
I thought the free postage both ways was a nice touch and it makes it competitive, but it will skew "face value" comparisons as most sites advertise their dev ex-postage (AG pay to return, Filmdev pay to send).
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There are of course opportunities to 'sell' film with the return item as well, a throwback to the old days where you would order new films (or sometimes get £1 or free ones) with your returned negs and prints.

If the 'free postage' extended to this concept then they would become very competitive.
 
I like that they do 'prepay' development when you buy the film. Something I've seen offered a fair bit in the US but not so much over here.

Will be curious to see the level of quality of their scans. I use Brighton Film Lab who are pricey, but I am always happy with the scans no matter how bad my photography. Seems they take time to get the best out of each role. I tried TakeitEasy and was left disappointed, the black and white scans were unusable due to dust and hair etc. They did re-do them but still very noticeable marks when blown up.
 
They’re doing an opening promo of 20% off with code: Save20Lab

Interestingly colour prices are the same as B&W. They’ve also added 110.
 
Film scanning details from them:

Standard3637 x 2433 pixels1-2 MBJPEG
Premium5444 x 3648 pixels4-5 MBJPEG
Premium TIFF5444 x 3648 pixels50-60 MBTIFF

Standard is very similar to filmdev's medium resolution.
 
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Ahhyes said:
Many of you probably have seen Analogue Wonderland for buying films, well now they've opened up their own lab for development. They've just started so only B&W is on the website right now but I think over the next week colour will be up. They offer 35mm, 120, and 110 with "more on the way".

Pricing wise - colour or B&W:

Processing:
  • 35mm - £6
  • 120 - £7
  • 110 - £7
  • Disposable camera - £6
Scanning is in addition:
  • Standard (2MB) - £5
  • Premium (5MB) - £8
  • Premium TIFF (25MB) - £10
Plus £5 (£6 for 120) to get the lovely sprockets on your scans.

Tracked Royal Mail postage is free there and back.

If you purchase development when you buy film you'll get 10% off development - including the scan options. So a 35mm from above becomes £5.30+£4.50 std. scans.

Site: https://analoguewonderland.co.uk/collections/film-developing

I'm interested to see what colour film pricing will be like. I use filmdev for mine, £6 for development and medium scans (~3MB), plus I pay for postage there, usually do 3-4 films at a time and do pay small parcel, so about £7/roll all in. Filmdev have also started B&W development and it's £10 dev/medium scans. Cheaper than AW, but it's good to have options and AW prices are still competitive.
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Funny enough I've just sent off my last roll from my Dynax 9 to them for processing I'll let you know how it comes out (y)
 
Ahhyes said:
Film scanning details from them:

Standard3637 x 2433 pixels1-2 MBJPEG
Premium5444 x 3648 pixels4-5 MBJPEG
Premium TIFF5444 x 3648 pixels50-60 MBTIFF

Standard is very similar to filmdev's medium resolution.
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Those are very good scan sizes. Looks like 2400 samples per inch, which is what I normally scan at. Quite a decent medium scan size for most purposes. I guess the 1-2 MB is JPEG file sizes.

I make the premium scans 19.9 Mpixel. So assuming 60MB for the TIFF, that's 3 bytes per pixel, ie 8 bit TIFFs (rather than 16 bits).
 
Took around 3 days for the images to come back, overall very happy with the process and sizes, I went for the standard and the image scans are between 2.8-4.1MB on the computer.
 
Joeturner11 said:
Took around 3 days for the images to come back, overall very happy with the process and sizes, I went for the standard and the image scans are between 2.8-4.1MB on the computer.
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Sent 5 films off last Monday (mix of colour/b+w 35/120) - still waiting, now no-one available on the chat line, so I've left a phone message - Royal Mail tracking says delivered a week ago.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Sent 5 films off last Monday (mix of colour/b+w 35/120) - still waiting, now no-one available on the chat line, so I've left a phone message - Royal Mail tracking says delivered a week ago.
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They sent an email advising of a delay due to higher than anticipated orders. Maybe you received it?
 
Jakemico AE-1P said:
They sent an email advising of a delay due to higher than anticipated orders. Maybe you received it?
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No email from them regarding this, others asking for film reviews though, but I also didn't get the 'automated' email with all the postage label, their customer service had to sne dthat to me seperately. I don't mind the delay, I'd just like to be kept informed, but it seems as if my emails are falling off somewhere.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Just had a phone call update, they have some technical issues with their C41 processing machine, and due to the uncertainty (timescale) of that resolution, my films are their way back to me (to be developed elsewhere)
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If you want to dev your B&W at my place, you're welcome to pop over. I don't get out much these days due to Mrs H's health but am at home a lot. Either I can show you how to do it or you can just borrow my stuff.
 
Harlequin565 said:
If you want to dev your B&W at my place, you're welcome to pop over. I don't get out much these days due to Mrs H's health but am at home a lot. Either I can show you how to do it or you can just borrow my stuff.
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Ian, thats very kind, I might take you up on that, they did offer to develop the B+W film but quoted another 15 days, I thought it wise not to split the order and just get my shipment returned.
 
Appreciate that this thread is around 6 months old, just wondering on how people have found Analogue Wonderlab for processing and scanning? I am about to order some film from them so sending the exposed films back to them seems logical if they are good.

Thanks in advance.
 
They're okay. At times they've been slow but have emailed to explain. They're also more expensive than filmdev.co.uk and I don't see any benefit to go with Analogue Wonderland. I had a 20% off voucher and it was still more expensive. The negative holders they use are inferior to filmdevs and AW change for return negatives.
 
Ahhyes said:
They're okay. At times they've been slow but have emailed to explain. They're also more expensive than filmdev.co.uk and I don't see any benefit to go with Analogue Wonderland. I had a 20% off voucher and it was still more expensive. The negative holders they use are inferior to filmdevs and AW change for return negatives.
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Thanks for the reply, I’ll have a look at filmdev.
 
An intersting video, but I'm pretty amazed at how much manual work is involved, especially by the operator adjusting the preview scans before doing the final scans.
 
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