Welcome to Ag

Film Processing

Your film is precious and it deserves to be processed by the most experienced technicians and the best equipment. Ag is the market leader in the UK for stills film processing and one of few labs able to handle all 3 current processes in house (C41, E6 and Black & White). No other photo lab has invested more into film processing than Ag in recent years. Our simple to use online ordering covers a multitude of formats and options, without confusion, and means your film is handled quickly and efficiently when it arrives and to the highest possible standards. Our efficiency and economies of scale mean we can also deliver this finest service at a very competitive price.

C-type printing

Ag is one of the few labs capable of making C-Type prints up to 50"/127cm width. C-Types are the ultimate professional photographic print available today and are the only option for continuous tone colour printing from a digital file or film original. They capture nuanced detail no other print process can deliver and boast superb archival longevity from their silver halide formula, whether the image is colour or black and white. As the image has been exposed into the photographic emulsion, C-Types deliver images with a depth to them missing from ink based prints.

Giclee fine art printing

Giclee is the ultimate quality in fine art inkjet printing. Ag utilises the best possible 12 ink Canon wide format printers in order to deliver the finest quality on a wide range of hand picked print media. This service is perfect for many applications where the wide variety of print media available, such as textured surfaces, is required.

Mounting & Framing

Mounting is the process of bonding photographic prints to a substrate (backing). Ag offers traditional hot press archival dry mounting to acid free board and the latest laminating of prints to alternative substrates such as Dibond, Foam core, Foamex PVC or MDF. Mounting is perfect for many exhibition purposes. However we also offer hand made framing of your prints in a range of popular mouldings. All framing is archival and hand made.

Huge range of traditional products

Ag stocks an extensive range of film, paper, chemistry and darkroom products from the likes of Ilford, Kodak, Fujifilm etc. We have the largest range of the most popular products, and also some of the less popular, niche, products. We maintain one of the largest stocks of traditional black and white paper on our shelves. Our staff also have a lot of knowledge of traditional darkroom work and analogue photography and this knowledge is built on experience though operation of our own photolab together with our personal experience and academic study.