Kodak ProImage 100 in stock!
March 17, 2026
Ten bucks a roll.
Opening late today
March 9, 2026
I have to run some errands. Lab will open at noon today.
New cameras in stock!
February 16, 2026
New cameras in stock- a rangefinder, compacts (including some dust/weather sealing) and some SLR’s.
New “House Film” – Kentmere 400
February 12, 2026
Fomapan 400 BW film is out of stock, and will be for some time.
In its place, Kentmere 400 (Made by Harman-Ilford in England) will be stocked.
Mystery Box
February 5, 2026
A junk box of whatever has been established for the enrichment of rummagists and scavengers. Cameras are $20, bags and pouches are $8, “???” is $5. Dig through the treasures within.
Scanning Update: Kodak Film
February 2, 2026
I did some surgery to my scanning setup to accommodate Kodak’s fat, corpulent, out-of-spec 35mm film, which had caused buckling and unsharp scans for customers using the following Kodak product lines:
- Ultramax (and Fuji 400)
- Colorplus (and Fuji 200)
- Gold
- Portra
- Ektar
- ProImage
For customers who had resorted to using imported film just for sharp scans, rejoice! There is no longer a need to import foreign film of barbarian manufacture.
For customers who either don’t use Kodak at all, or only use Kodak film intended for cinema/government use: (e.g. Aerocolor or Vision repackaged for retail) you were never affected by Kodak’s recent width change, and you can ignore this. Kodak might not give a shit about the likes of you and me, but they’ll bend over backwards to avoid upsetting Uncle Sam or Harvey Weinstein.
Phoenix 200 and Santacolor 100 back in stock!
January 30, 2026
Phoenix 200 and Santacolor 100 (Kodak Aerocolor IV) are back in stock.
Candido 800 and Santacolor 100 in stock!
January 17, 2026
Kodak Aerocolor IV is now available for anybody to buy, not just obscure government agencies doing whale studies and cropland analysis or whatever from an airplane. Ask for “Santacolor 100.”
Candido 800 is back in stock.
Lomochrome Purple 400 now in stock!
December 25, 2025
Lomochrome Purple 100-400 (X-tended Range) is now available as 35mm rolls and 110 carts.
Christmas / NYE hours
December 19, 2025
The lab will close early at 6PM on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
The lab will be closed on Christmas Day.
PSA: Defective Kodak (and “Fuji”) Film
December 12, 2025
It appears that the gauge of most (if not all) Kodak 35mm film made in the past ~5 years are imperceptibly wider than spec, which prevents the film from sitting perfectly flat in the negative carriers of many digital scanners or darkroom enlargers. This will result in much of the image area appearing to be soft or out of focus.
For now, patrons are advised to entirely avoid the following Kodak and Fujifilm branded products:
Affected 35mm Kodak products (as far as I could tell):
- Portra (ALL speeds, except 160 which is unaffected for some reason)
- Colorplus 200
- Ultramax 400
- Kodak ProImage 100
- Kodacolor (ALL speeds)
Affected Fujifilm products:
- Fuji “Nameless” 400
- Fuji “Nameless” 200
- If your 35mm Fujifilm has “Made in USA” on the packaging, it’s made by Kodak.
✅ Kodak products intended for government/industrial use or the motion picture production are still manufactured at the correct gauge. Japanese-made Fujifilm products, and film from literally any other brand are unaffected. ✅
I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if Kodak’s BW lines and other formats are also affected. I couldn’t be bothered to check. I showed you my dick, Kodak- now answer me. Even FOMA in Czecho-Whateverstan the fuck can do this correctly, and they’re broke Lada-driving ex communist europeans who probably fucking drink through the entire duration of their 30 minute work weeks. What the fuck is your excuse for not noticing this for nearly half a decade, Kodak?
The other day, I learned that these subhuman MBA’s actually assigned a term to the practice of actually using the shit you manufacture. Know what they call it? “Dogfooding.” Like, that’s the fucking term they chose. As if the fact that this is a novel concept for them isn’t embarrassing enough, they think it’s somehow beneath them. This kind of insipidity and laurel-resting is why the old “Vineyard Vines and boat shoes wearing East Coast f*ggot” caste was utterly outmaneuvered ousted from their position in American business and politics by shrewder (but still just as shitty) new management.
Sorry gng, I’m mad rn.🥀 I’m mad at the whole corporate side of the photography and imaging industry. They’re so fucking retarded and out of touch in every goddamn aspect of their existence, I hate them fr.
Look at these fucking people and tell me honestly that you wouldn’t violently rob them if you knew you could get away with it, purely on principle. Not even for personal gain, I mean just to throw their keys and jewelry down a storm drain or elevator shaft. These grublike masses of flesh are still flapping their mouths about fucking office scanners in their bios.
(Un)recommendation: Kodak Snapic A1- and a Letter to Kodak
November 29, 2025
$99. Not stocked.
Looks very cool. Don’t buy it. ❌✋⛔
The 25mm ultra-wide lens should be fun, but its fixed f/9.5 aperture and single-speed 1/100 sec. shutter makes it essentially a motorized disposable camera you can reload, placing it in the lowest possible tier of camera. A camera like this certainly has its place as a photographic tool, but people who buy it expecting a small automatic camera (like the sought-after Ricoh GR1 it is styled after) will be severely disappointed to find out that it is not very small and not actually automatic, at least not in the ways anyone would actually want. It’s hipster bait. You’ll have lots of fun until you get your pictures back, and then get frustrated because you think film is a silly waste of time and money.
Dearest Kodak,
Not that any of the subhuman boomer MBA’s in charge at Kodak actually read, (both as in books and in general) but just in case any of them stumbled here: There are ENOUGH “fixed shutter slow lens reloadable disposable type” shitter cameras on the market, and they all fucking suck by design. Just as this one will. As everyone probably knew from the start, before a designer’s stylus ever struck a wacom under pay.
Nobody asked for this, and you all are shooting yourselves in the foot by putting people off film forever by baiting them with this $99 lump of disappointment, lovingly injection-molded in some shithole country sweatshop. Look at you retards, trying so actively to intentionally fail at the “razor blades and handles” model of business. Couldn’t a SINGLE ONE of you shiftless Costco brand polo-wearing nepo baby cocksuckers in Rochester gather the wherewithal to make something REMOTELY desirable? Genuinely pathetic. I am willing to bet cash that ZERO of your board members are even casual photographers, and that at least 2/3 will probably respond to The Question with “but I did eat breakfast this morning.”
By the way, someone at Kodak quality control needs to check his god damned calipers because all your 35mm made after 2020 is too fucking pig fat wide and doesn’t fit properly in scanner holders or darkroom holder plates that require the film to actually be the correct gauge. I’ve tried to tell someone about this and the odd defective Portra I get from customers, but it’s like anyone I manage to even contact about this are mental defectives who don’t seem to know who to relay the information to, and they themselves don’t even seem sure that they work for Kodak.
Just make cheap film, and make it right. That’s all you ass-clowns need to do. At least put off trying to be a fucking lifestyle brand until your main product stops sucking shit. I’ve watched the insipid genetically determined losers of the Kodak executive board fumble and stumble and trip over their own cocks for a quarter of a century, acting like they’re back in 1998 trying to figure out how to deal with the coming digital future- while it STILL hasn’t even hit management that exact future has already LONG since come and gone, and people just want film.
-J
Coming soon: Rapid Processing
November 16, 2025
I’ll be trialing rapid film processing for a fee soon. One tier will be for 4~5 rolls, sleeved and scanned in 4 hours. The next tier for completion by the next business day, and maybe a discounted tier.
The real goal is to make it viable for someone with a police radio scanner to get breaking news pictures with a grubby Goodwill camera, and send off scans in time to get them in the next day’s paper. I would also like to determine if there are enough crackheads impatient people to subsidize a price drop for those who won’t mind waiting for up to 2 days, with expected efficiency gains from order batching.
(Customers paying the third class fare will still occasionally get orders done same-day, unless someone drops off a full rush order right before.)
Harman Phoenix 200 (Ver. 1) – More on the way!
November 14, 2025
Final run stock of the warm and punchy original and now discontinued Phoenix 200, coming soon. Ilford released this in 2023ish if memory serves, and constantly updated the formula for a few years before discontinuing it to produce a Version II focused on cooler tones. It might be conjecture, but Harman-Ilford seems to be in a process of rapid iteration to create affordable domestic substitutes to imported consumer grade films like American Kodak (Orange) and Japanese Fujifilm (Turquoise).
If the first version was a charming boardwalk portrait of Kodak’s old drugstore films, samples I’ve encountered of second version are more like a buck-toothed wartime caricature of Fuji, failing to truly evoke the vibes of the original- though I’ll have to get my hands on some to find out for myself. Maybe it’s already been improved and iterated, but I’m still stocking V1.
Colors aside, the English film is materially superior to Kodak’s in some respects- its imperceptibly reduced width and flat drying tendency allows it to sit perfectly parallel in most cut-strip film scanners, and move effortlessly through the snaking turns of full-roll scanners with less risk of scratching or catastrophic jamming. This film dries so flat it doesn’t even look real when it’s hanging. I suspect it will translate to improved cross-frame sharpness in the darkroom.
Phoenix 200 (classic) has been extremely popular, and is a personal favorite of mine. We’re all sad to see it go, but it’s better to plaster your sunny memories onto the stuff than to let it languish in a freezer beside a bag of chicken breasts so old, it was already forgotten when Ozymandias’ statue was having its unveiling and ribbon cutting ceremony.
New film in stock!
November 11, 2025
Kodak Kodacolor 100 ($10) and Candido 800 ($17) film in stock, in 35mm!
Wolfen discount!
October 13, 2025
The rain and foggy days are back. Wolfen NC500‘s muted, grungy rendering and its spiteful grain will pair nicely with a soggy gray afternoon. Only $5/roll. Get it while you can- when it’s gone, it’s gone.
Mayfield Photo Lab opening on Cal Ave, Palo Alto
October 3, 2025
The lab has been operating in drug-dealer mode for the past year, but no more- Mayfield Photo Lab will be opening up at 441 California Avenue, starting next Monday. 🙂
Camera Recommendation: Lomo LC-Wide
September 27, 2025
The Lomo LC-Wide is a goated camera that is somehow unknown, but is relatively new and one that you should consider. It’s an ultrawide automatic that even has a half-frame mode to double the number of shots per roll, or shoot full frames with the flick of a switch. (Also has a square mode.)
Blows the flimsy fuckass Pentax 17 out of the water at HALF the price at only $280, has been in production for over a decade now, and can be yours new with a warranty from Lomography.com.
Disposables are bad okay
September 9, 2023
They’re fun, don’t get me wrong- and they still represent the cheapest way to put a camera in the hands of a large number of people for the fewest possible dollars. They’re fantastic for taking to places where the camera might be lost or destroyed, situations where you would hesitate to take your Leica or Contax T3.
That said, they’re pretty awful cameras objectively.
Focus is fixed to a preset distance, and subjects within 5 to 25 feet will be appear sharpest, with anything outside that range only somewhat in focus- which feels perfectly adequate until you want a sharp picture of a faraway mountain or a close-up of your food.
The aperture and shutter speed also fixed, and can’t be adjusted at all. Pictures taken in bright midday sun will appear washed out. Pictures taken indoors or in the dark will be nearly blank, unless the flash is used- and it will only illuminate what is a few feet in front or the camera.
Try an old point-and-shoot. They’re easy to load and use, and cheaper in the long run compared to disposables. There is really nothing like an automatic camera for intuitive, math-free snapshots from dawn to dusk and beyond.
Remjet film update and modified hours
July 31, 2025
The fatwa on remjet-coated motion picture film has been lifted, though there will be a $10 per-order charge. This too will be lifted.
I’ll be out of the lab between 4 PM and 7 PM on Friday, August 1. You can still drop off film during this time.
Agfa Pan 100 and Wolfen NC500 now in stock!
July 22, 2025
Smooth, wide latitude BW film at just $5/roll!
Be sure to also try Wolfen NC500 for grungy colors on the cheap. Just $7 per roll.
Kodak Pro Image 100 now in stock.
June 23, 2025
Fine grained and balanced for skin tones. Heat resistant. Perfect for fun in the sun.
Stay hydrated, this film can take a lot more heat than you can.
Cinema film cross-processing
June 19, 2025
E-6 and Slide film cross-processing fees are waived as of June 7, 2025!
Please note: If you shoot re-rolled cinema film, please confirm that the carbon-based “remjet” layer has been removed in advance.
Fresh Minox 9.2mm film now available!
June 7, 2025
36 frame cartridges of fresh film sold.
50-shot film reloads offered if you bring in your Minox. Call or email for details.
Disposable Camera PSA
June 2, 2025
I’ve gotten this question not many times, but enough times that a PSA was needed:
Disposable cameras are NOT meant to be thrown away immediately after use by the user. You fucking idiot.
You bring me the camera. I take out the film, develop it, give you the pictures, then I dispose of the camera. You don’t do that step.
Open. New Cameras.
April 24, 2025
Minox 35 semi-automatic compact (f/2.8 lens!) and Fed 5B rangefinder now available. 🙂
Temporary Closure
February 4, 2025
Lab will be temporarily closed. Re-opening April 12th.
110 and Minox – Good news!
January 18, 2025
110 film and Minox 8×11 film processing is now available at the same price as 35mm.
110 film is now available in the film shop. Minox film is currently available only as camera or cassette reloads. Packaged cassette film will be available Soon™. You gotta trust.
120 – Bad news and unrelated good news.
January 6, 2025
I know I said I would offer medium format processing and scanning soon, but it’s not going well. That said, I’m making more progress on other fronts. Smaller fronts. Teeny-tiny itsy-bitsy fronts. Have you ever seen a film negative smaller than your pinkie nail? Stay tuned for 110 processing updates.
Film Sale
December 17, 2024
35mm fomapan (bw) is five bucks a roll until December 31.
🙂
Tips for film storage
December 14, 2024
Modern consumer color films are quite robust and can survive a wide range of conditions, but some considerations should still be made to ensure color fidelity.
- Extreme or prolonged heat can cause uneven or patchy color shifts on your film. Avoid exposing your film and loaded camera to high heat for long periods of time and remember that it has roughly the same tolerance to it as a human infant. Don’t let your film bake in a hot parked car, don’t store your stash on top of a warm radiator. If you’re traveling somewhere that’s always hot and sunny, try the heat-resistant Pro Image 100 from Kodak, or a regular black-and-white film.
- Prolonged exposure to light can foul your film. Don’t leave film from your vacation on a bright windowsill or on a bookshelf watching the sunset for weeks on end. Try a box, a desk drawer, or a bag instead.
- Damp or humid storage can lead to blotchiness. Dyes and other water soluble chemicals will run and spread. Consider Pro Image 100 from Kodak.
- Airport x-rays and CT scanners can fog your film, or leave ugly wavy patterns on it. Most low sensitivity film used to be able to survive a pass or two without too much ill effect, but modern CT scanners absolutely obliterate your film, especially fast 800 ASA film that is often preloaded in disposables. Always ask for a manual inspection of your film. If there is no way around the scan, remember that duration of exposure is a factor. Put your film through the machine separately and not near anything with a particularly interesting or suspicious cross section. The operator spending 20 seconds to admire the inner workings of your mechanical vintage camera, and then another 10 guessing if your powerbank’s battery is a bomb or not might not seem like much, but it could be the difference between a color cast that can be edited away or ending up with gray mush.
I’m back
November 26, 2024
Lab’s open.
Out of Town
October 26, 2024
The lab will close November 11th and re-open on November 26th.
Minolta Talker available in Camera Shop
October 25, 2024
Yappatron in stock