You did the hard part: you were there, and you pressed the shutter. We handle the chemistry, the scanning and the obsessive dust-spotting. Rolls in by noon, scans by Friday.
INTERACTIVE DESIGN DEMO. THE TANK IS A SIMULATION - NO FILM IS RECEIVED, PRICED OR RETURNED.
Pick a stock, start the tank, and watch a frame come up the way it does under a safelight: slowly, then all at once.
SIMULATED CHEMISTRY. STAGES RUN ABOUT NINE SECONDS; THE REAL ONES TAKE LONGER AND SMELL WORSE.
Illustrative prices. Nothing is sold here.
| Service | Turnaround | Sample price |
|---|---|---|
| C-41 develop + standard scan | 3 days | $14 |
| C-41 develop + high-res scan | 3 days | $22 |
| B&W develop + scan | 4 days | $18 |
| E-6 slide develop + scan | 5 days | $26 |
| 8x10 hand print, fiber paper | 1 week | $45 |
| Push/pull per stop | - | +$4 |
What happens after the envelope drops through the slot. Sample schedule.
Rolls in by noon join the same day's batch. Later than noon, they sleep over and join tomorrow's.
Chemistry at temperature, timers with no snooze button. This part has not changed in fifty years.
Frame by frame, dust-spotted by a person who has opinions about your horizon lines.
Scans in your inbox, negatives sleeved and filed. The good kind of Friday email.
LATENT is a fictional lab with a real belief: thirty-six frames make you honest. When every frame costs something, you stop spraying and start seeing. The wait between shutter and scan is where anticipation lives - and we think a little anticipation is good for a person.
The lab, the stocks and the rate card on this page are invented for the template. The affection for the process is entirely genuine.
EST. NEVER - FICTIONAL LAB - 12 FIXTURE LANE (NOT A REAL PLACE)
No. It replays an illustrated scene through simulated chemistry stages to show the lab's process. Nothing is uploaded, received, scanned or returned - LATENT is a fictional lab.
No - they're affectionate stand-ins for the kinds of stocks a real lab handles every day. Any resemblance to beloved emulsions is intentional but unofficial.
They're a sample rate card, plausible but invented.