Magic Photo Lab Inc.

straightforward and efficient
Apr 6th, 2024

Mar 24th, 2024

I had a very bad experience with photo developing at this lab. I am still rating 3 stars because I am sure they do a good job with other services, but for film, stay away. They must've had dirty chemicals or made some other developing mistake, and all 80 of my photos came out with a thick, dark, sepia tint. Even the overexposed photos look dark. I did not leave a review right away because with film, there are many factors and I couldn't be sure this was the lab's fault. I spent time and money testing the camera with other film stocks, and testing the other two rolls of film from this same package in other cameras to see if either the film or the camera were at fault. All other photos (developed at 3 other labs) turned out excellent. In addition, I send the negatives to another lab for a rescan, thinking maybe the scanning/editing was bad. No, it was the developing. What's frustrating is that Magic Photo Lab didn't even mention the mistake to me, hoping I wouldn't notice. And because I am new to film photography, I didn't. I thought I did something wrong until I ran those test comparisons. They did heavy editing to hide the sepia tone but it made the pics look worse. The other lab that rescanned the roll left them unedited, and I was able to edit them myself to look a little better. If you are looking to develop film, I suggest Photo Life on Nostrand. Less than half the price, same day scans, incredible results. Because of them, I didn't give up on film after the disappointing experience with Magic Photo Lab.
Mar 23rd, 2024

Great service
Mar 23rd, 2024

Mar 16th, 2024