Currently, my darkroom is at school. When school ends about a month from now, I can't do anything but shoot film and let it sit. Are there any (preferably inexpensive) labs south of chicago, around tinley and orland park, that will develop 120 film?
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Currently, my darkroom is at school. When school ends about a month from now, I can't do anything but shoot film and let it sit. Are there any (preferably inexpensive) labs south of chicago, around tinley and orland park, that will develop 120 film?
Use this site to help find a lab. All you need to do is supply your zip code then a list of labs will come up. You'll have to do some calling about film processes they provide.
http://www.ipiphoto.com/
I just wanted to update this as there has been some considerable changes in the local labs.
1. Helix has stopped processing film.
2. Phoenix Imaging was sold to a digital printing company and they have moved to Lake Street near downtown. In the basement of that building, Gamma Imaging is located. Phoenix and Gamma both do good work (C41&E6). I think Gamma actually outsources some stuff to Phoenix. Also, both of them outsource B&W processing to some *mystery* entity in Evanston.
3. Central Camera used to use Helix for a lot of their stuff. They now send it to Dwayne's in Kansas.
4. CSW still does E6 and C41, but not B&W.
As far as I know those are the only three "pro" film labs left in the area. If anyone has more info, please share.
One more thing, Printlab does B&W processing, but focuses on high end printing projects, both darkroom and digital.
Looks like Helix is going out of business entirely, so I guess it's a good thing they stopped processing film a little earlier :-(
I used to drop off my E6 at Helix's Highland Park location (and they'd run it downtown and back) because I work near there, but when that closed a couple of years ago I switched to CSW and just mail it. Glad to hear they're hanging in there.
Duncan
Not sure if you need a place to play, or just pay. You can play here:
http://chicagocommunitydarkroom.org/