J&F Photo Lab Inc. - Los Angeles, California

Julia K.

The best place where you can go! I tried 3-4 places to scan my film photos and always felt “not the right one”. But these guys are the best, they are so patient (answer all my questions in person and via mail, hope I'm not “that” client lol), and I feel their love for what they do, for my pictures and how they care about it. Thank you J&J Photo Lab team!♡

Porag

The service was superb. The shop representatives were very helpful.
They provide a good cost for negative scanning and printing.
They know their stuffs.
I visited CVS & walgreens but here the service was top notch.
you have to street park while coming here, which was easy to find.

Yuliia K.

I have been a loyal customer for film developing and scanning here in J&F for 2 years. The stuff was always nice and welcoming and they send photos very fast. However, I guess the speed comes with sacrificing the quality, because they're completely relying on automatic settings of the scanners.

For a while I thought that I just shoot crooked, but after I started hand printing my photos, I realized that a lot of my 120 scans that I get from them are off center. Not just cropped but shifted to the right, down or up.

I brought up that issue ones and just asked them to keep it in mind and center the photos better, the response was that they always center them and will never crop too much from one side.

It happened again and this time I really wanted a few of this shots to be scanned correctly, as I don't want to crop them in to even it out, so I showed them the proof that they are not centered, the girl that works there was nice and said that yeah, that's just what Noritsu scanner does, they don't manually center it, but the scanner itself just pulls it and often crops them incorrectly.

I asked them very politely to rescan just a few photos if not on Noritsu, then at least on a different scanner Frontier (which I tried before, but would get inconsistent colors and the contrast is way too high for me)
She was about to charge me for rescanning. I asked if they can do it for free, since there is an error on their part, she was very hesitant. I ended up just asking for rescan of one single photo. She went to talk to the manager and came back with an answer "no".

I was pretty confused. I spent so much money there over 2 years, I even sent to them multiple photographer friends as customers and they refuse to rescan a single photo, that has their error.

I don't think I can support this business anymore.

I attached their scan and my own at home scan on Epson printer, just so you can see the crop comparison. There's not much crop from the left side and the bottom, but a dramatic crop from the right side and top.

I don't mind if the photo would be slightly cropped in, I just want my subject to be centered like it's supposed to be. And I know for a fact that you can scan full frame on both scanners especially Frontier, you just need to change the settings, which is too much of a hustle for J&F.

Henry K.

By far the best place to get your film developed in LA. I’ve been to multiple places and none have as great customer service and great quality as J&F. This is the only place I will go from now on.

Joel D.

Recently dropped off 6 rolls before noon on July 3rd and got the scans back by end of day. The person who helped me was friendly and answered my question regarding the extra cost for pushing film. No problem finding street parking. The dev/scan cost of color 35mm was about .30 cents more than my local lab but worth it for the fast turnaround. The scans turned out great considering a couple of the rolls were expired and went through airport scanners on top of that. I asked for negatives back and the gentleman explained their 30 day hold policy to make sure I understood what happens if I didn't pick them up. Honestly, for a first time experience they were great. I have to guess that some of the more critical reviews were a result of bad communication/misunderstanding. I def recommend checking them out!

Ricardo C.

Great service, everyone was very kind and attentive. The turnaround was super quick with digital files being sent either the day of or the following day. They have a wide collection of film stock you can buy there. Great place to get film developed and scanned if you're ever in the area.

Joseph

Been going to J&F for about 4 years now and it’s the only place I go to for anything film related! Prints are good! scans are great!! Usually receive my scans in 24 which is a plus.

Phil C.

My favorite lab in LA. The scans look amazing and make my job easier not needing to spend a ton of time adjusting them after. The kindest and sweetest staff, crazy quick turn around. We love J&F