1 Hour Development of 120 film?

[sgtBerbatov]

Having recently bought an old 120 medium format camera, I found a listing on eBay for some expired 120 film. I saw the words "Fujifilm" and "Provia" and hit the Buy Now button. Fast forward the weekend, they're here on my desk. The problem is I thought the Fujifilm Provia was a black and white film, not colour. Now I don't tend to take photos with my film camera in colour, I prefer black and white and my dev equipment at home is more geared up to black and white development. Not colour.

Every time, with my 35mm film, I've gone to Jessops or Boots and had them do a 1 hour development on the film so I could bring it home and scan it in to the computer myself. I've never used 120 film before, and from what I've looked for online I can't seem to find out whether Jessops or Boots even develop 120 film, let alone do a 1 hour job on it. So does anyone know of a high street photography place that will develop the 120 film in an hour, or at least overnight?

Failing that, anyone got a recommendation of a good place where I can send the film off to for development?

[MysteryLemon]

It's been a long time since I worked there but Forest Photographic Ltd. in Walthamstow, London, used to turnaround 120 film same day.

https://www.forestphotographic.co.uk/about/onetwen...

Seems they don't do same day any more (not surprising really) but they certainly still develop 120 rolls on site and will offer a mail order service if you aren't local.

Fantastic, genuine, knowledgeable staff and owners that have been in the business nearly half a century.

Edited by MysteryLemon on Tuesday 5th March 12:34

[Gad-Westy]

Provia is a slide film isn't? E6, positive or whatever the correct term is. I'd be amazed if any high street places still do that. Even some dedicated labs seem to be stopping E6 dev, including, annoyingly my local one. They do offer some process where your slide film is developed as a negative (how does that work?) but the results from that seem really muddy to me. I think I'll be sending anything like that to Peak imaging or someone similar from here on in.

[MysteryLemon]

Forest also process E6 on-site. (including 120)

https://www.forestphotographic.co.uk/about/slidefi...

[sgtBerbatov]

Well, every day is a school day especially when you haven't a clue about photography! I didn't know it was slide film.

I'll check out the suggestions though, thanks for that