Fast turnaround, professional scans, proper photographic prints.
Whether you need film developed quickly, carefully prepared files for professional work, or traditional prints from your negatives, we offer a film lab service built around quality as well as convenience.
Fast film developing
One-hour colour C41 and black & white are available when you need your scans quickly, with standard and two-week options when you are not in a hurry.
For working photographers
Ready-to-use Noritsu scans, real 16-bit TIFF options and photographer-led image control for wedding, portrait, editorial and event photographers.
For people who want proper photographs
Developing, scans and real photographic C-Type prints on Fuji professional paper, with gloss or matt finishes available.
Developing, scans and proper photographic prints.
Film is not just about files on a screen. We develop, scan and print your photographs, with real C-Type prints made on Fuji professional photographic paper in gloss or matt.
Traditional photographic prints
Add real photographic C-Type prints to your order, printed on Fuji professional paper with a choice of gloss or matt finish.
Use our 2-week option
If you are not in a hurry, our 2-week C41 Develop + Medium Noritsu scan option starts from £10 if negatives are not required back, or £12 with sleeved negatives.
Use your local lab
Avoid the cost, delay, inconvenience and risk of posting film away. Drop in, talk to us, and collect your negatives and prints from the shop.
For working photographers
Professional developing and scanning for wedding, portrait, editorial and event photographers. Our workflow combines accurate film processing, a calibrated Noritsu HS-1800 scan setup and careful photographer-led image control, producing files that are ready to use with little or no further adjustment.
Ready-to-use scans
Standard scans are prepared with care so they are ready for delivery, sharing, printing or client use with little or no further adjustment.
Photographer-led image control
Our Noritsu HS-1800 film scanner gives images the colour, tone and consistency associated with the sought-after Noritsu look. We then review files with photographic judgement, making careful density, highlight and shadow adjustments where needed.
16-bit TIFF options
For photographers who want more control, our 16-bit TIFF files provide greater tonal information and editing headroom for personal adjustment.
Quality film developing, scanning and printing — fast when you need it.
One-hour colour C41 and one-hour black & white are available, alongside standard and two-week options. Every order is built around proper processing, Noritsu scanning and real photographic C-Type printing — not just quick turnaround.
Fast when you need it
Proper lab processing
Our customers get better results, better service
We built Picture This Film Lab because most film labs are either drop-off counters that don't understand film, or industrial mail-order operations that never meet the photographers they serve.
Neither one can give you real advice, and neither one gets better over time.
We're different because we're genuinely in the room with film photographers every day. We sell cameras, we test them, we shoot them ourselves.
We develop and scan film on machines that run six days a week. And we talk to hundreds of active photographers every week - about their cameras, their results, their next roll.
That feedback loop is the whole point. It's why our advice is grounded in what actually works.
Picture This is a film lab the way it should be — run by film photographers who genuinely care about your photography.
Student and NHS discounts available.
Film developing customers get 10% off film and disposable cameras.
Same-day.
Every day.
Remember One Hour Photo?
We brought it back. For when you're in Brighton for the day, or for when you just can't wait.
Real customer photographs, scanned by Picture This Film Lab.
Our customer gallery is built from Instagram collaborations invited by our customers — a thank you to the lab, a record of the work we process, and a way for local film photographers to discover each other.
Customer collaborations
Customers invite us to collaborate on Instagram posts featuring photographs developed and scanned by Picture This Film Lab.
Proof of our service
The gallery shows real results from real customers — colour, black & white, disposable cameras, 35mm and medium format.
Discover local photographers
Follow the gallery to discover other local photographers, shared interests and film work processed here in Brighton.
Follow customer collaborations, discover local film photographers and see real scans from the lab.
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