We’re not just color experts.
Black and White —with a difference
Black and white images will always carry a timeless, classic look. Especially when you make those photos with B&W film. Colorcraft Lab + Scan can develop just about every B&W roll film in use today. Whether you shoot Ilford, Kodak, Kentmere, Arista, Fomapan or any other specialty film, we can develop and scan it, both 35mm and 120. We use two different developers when it comes to processing your B&W film. Our lab standard is Kodak HC-110. It’s a venerable developer that offers good, clean contrast without exaggerated grain. There is a recipe for developing B&W film in Kodak HC-110 for nearly every film made in the last 30 years. It’s also a great developer to use when you find old or expired film by lowering the effect of age fog. We use it “one-shot” in the lab, meaning we mix it fresh for every roll. Our other alternative developer is Kodak D-96 which is a motion picture developer. We develop Kodak 5222 Double X film and many other motion picture films used today for still photography. It’s a lower contrast developer and works well at retaining shadow and highlight detail in contrasty scenes. We mix it from scratch, using individual components right here in the lab.
Level up your B&W images with 510 Pyro
We’ve added another developer to our darkroom arsenal to level up your B&W image creation. Pyro is one of the oldest developing agents still in use today for film development. We now offer Zone Imaging’s 510 Pyro developer as another option for developing your B&W film. 510 Pyro creates a stained on the negative during development. The stain effectively creates a mask, blending in the spaces between the silver grains. This creates incredibly sharp images, with extended highlight separation. The stain acts as extra density when printing images in the traditional darkroom. We think you’ll love how the scans too. Add this service on the ordering page when submitting your B&W film for processing and scanning. Works especially well on 100 ISO and lower films.
