📍Dropping off film?
📍Dropping off film?
☕️ Café Kitsune, Brooklyn, NYC
☕️ Café Kitsune, Brooklyn, NYC
🖼️ CSM Art & Frame, Chatham, NJ
🖼️ CSM Art & Frame, Chatham, NJ
🍦Starland Strange & Bazaar, Savannah, GA
🍦Starland Strange & Bazaar, Savannah, GA
🎞️ Gelatin Labs HQ, Maplewood, NJ
🎞️ Gelatin Labs HQ, Maplewood, NJ
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Bring your memories vacation street photos weekend snaps portraits family photos disposables roadtrip landscapes studio shoot archive wedding images to life.

Bring your memories vacation street photos weekend snaps portraits family photos disposables roadtrip landscapes studio shoot archive wedding images to life.

Welcome to Gelatin Labs, your trusted partner for all your film photography needs!

We exist to provide thoughtful services that are made to give photographers the highest quality and most well rounded return on their investment – their images.

FAST PASS (Scans delivered Same Day-3 Days)

5/5
Love that the scans are flat and enormous. I received my scans in less than 24 hours. So happy to have a local lab for all my film processing needs.
Melissa Efrus
5/5
Love that the scans are flat and enormous. I received my scans in less than 24 hours. So happy to have a local lab for all my film processing needs.
Melissa Efrus
5/5
I was very impressed with the scans... and the turnaround time... Was well worth it and this will be my go to lab from now on!
Parker Rowberry
5/5
I was very impressed with the scans... and the turnaround time... Was well worth it and this will be my go to lab from now on!
Parker Rowberry
5/5
A very helpful and approachable lab and my scans were uploaded within 24 hours of them receiving my film!
Edward Philip De Asis
5/5
A very helpful and approachable lab and my scans were uploaded within 24 hours of them receiving my film!
Edward Philip De Asis
5/5
Super impressed with the quality of my film scans. Would highly recommend Gelatin Labs for those who want high-quality scans that offer flexibility for editing.
Nelson Nabua
5/5
Super impressed with the quality of my film scans. Would highly recommend Gelatin Labs for those who want high-quality scans that offer flexibility for editing.
Nelson Nabua
5/5
I'm blown away by Gelatin Labs for their professionalism, and young fresh take on a photography Lab. They make everything so easy! Their scans are to die for! Thank you 🙂
Megan Oxley
5/5
I'm blown away by Gelatin Labs for their professionalism, and young fresh take on a photography Lab. They make everything so easy! Their scans are to die for! Thank you 🙂
Megan Oxley

Film Services

Professional film development and scanning services to process your photos and preserve your memories.

We accept all types of film. disposable cameras. 35mm film. 120 film. E-6 slide film. ECN-2 film. instant film. Black + White film.

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Shoot film, plant trees.

For every order placed, a tree will be planted. You shoot film, and you plant a tree… how awesome is that?

We are making our impact as a photo lab on the planet positive, recycling your single-use cameras, plastic, paper, and cardboard, safely disposing of chemical waste, planting trees, and funding solar plants + forest preservation efforts!

Image Credit: © Darcy Lynne Aders, All Rights Reserved

From Basement to Business

A multigenerational story that starts and continues on the love of everything analog, forming the foundation for Gelatin Labs. Now processing film for photographers everywhere.

Frequently Asked Questions

Select Return Shipping at checkout to get negatives returned. Negatives are shipped back uncut and sleeved in continuous sleeving. 

Free Return Shipping unlocked on orders over $124.99.

Gelatin Labs develops:

  • 35mm, 120, Disposables, 4×5, and other sizes by request.
  • Color C-41, E-6, ECN-2 and Black+White film.

For most C-41 color negative film, we process your film in an all-new, state-of-the-art Colenta roller transport machine. With the most pristine color accuracy and archival wash stages, your film is in the best of hands.

For expired film and disposables, we use a well maintained Noritsu V-30 film processor.

Black+White is hand developed using Ilford chemistry.

E-6 Color Positive slide film is developed using our handy Jobo ATL1000.

ECN-2 is developed by Kodak Lab Atlanta as a true ECN-2 chemical process.

We use DNP commercial printers to make our amazing dye-sublimation prints. 4×6 prints available as an add-on to film services.

 

Pack your film securely in a bubble mailer or box, addressed to:

Gelatin Labs
515 Valley St. STE 160
Maplewood, NJ 07040

Need a mailing label? Add one to your cart here.

We always appreciate customer doodles, Polaroids, and artwork as well. We’ll feature them on our Instagram!

Gelatin Labs is putting creative control back into your hands. Our film scans will have a flexible tonal range, which means that highlights, midtones and shadows are preserved. This makes editing a breeze. We deliver large TIFF files by default, storing more color and tonal information from your negatives.

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    Drop Off Locations

    The Map Building

    Maplewood, NJ

    Hours: 24/7/365

    515 Valley St.
    Maplewood, NJ 07040

    CSM Art & Frame

    Chatham, NJ

    Hours: 24/7/365

    295 Main Street
    (Carriage House),
    Chatham Township,
    NJ 07928

    Café Kitsuné, Boerum Hill

    Brooklyn, NY

    Hours: Monday-Sunday: 8am-8pm

    112 Bond St
    Brooklyn, NY 11217

    Print With Gelatin Labs

    Fill out the form below and our team will get back to you via email with a link for you to upload your images.
    Print Form

    Please choose your print size(s):

    Finish Preference

    It’s Time To Get Printing!

    Whatever type of work you create, the Gelatin Labs Print Upload will render beautiful, archival prints that will enable you to bring your art off of your screen and into the realm of physical existence. The process is simple: select your print size, upload your images, and pick from three distinct finishes!

    8x10 inch

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    4x6 inch

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    Scanned contact sheet

    See your sprockets!

    How do I drop-off my film?

    1. After placing your order, you’ll receive a confirmation number.

    2. Our dropbox is located to the left of the main entrance to the Map Building. Put film in a securely sealed bag or box, or use one of our envelopes provided if necessary. Write the order number on the bag.

    3. Drop film in top section of box, and we’ll handle the rest!

    4. If you’d like your negatives back, make sure to order ‘Return Shipping’ at checkout.

    CSM ART & FRAME • CHATHAM, NJ

    How do I drop-off my film?

    1. When placing your order, select “Return Shipping” if you’d like your negatives back, or ordered prints. Pickup is not available from this location.
    2. Include your order number with your film in a securely sealed bag.
    3. Drop in our dedicated dropbox, along the path from CSM Art & Frame to the Chatham, NJ train station.
    4. After being emailed your scans, or notified that your order is ready for pickup.
    Café Kitsuné, Boerum Hill • BROOKLYN, NY

    How do I drop-off my film?

    1. When placing your order, select “Return Shipping” if you’d like your negatives back, or ordered prints. Pickup is not available from this location.

    2. Include your order number with your film in a securely sealed bag.

    3. Drop in our dedicated dropbox, located inside the café, available during posted hours. Ask for assistance if you need help locating it.