Beginners Printing Workshops

Intro to Black and White Printing - 5 hours - £125

This five hour intensive course will demonstrate the process of printing from start to finish, including contact sheets, dodging and burning, split grade exposure and determining the strength and weaknesses of your negatives through to final prints/. SW Darkroom will supply all paper and chemistry needed, all you will need to bring are your pre-processed negatives. This course does not cover the process of film development, however you can make arrangements for film processing ahead of the workshop if needed.

Intro to Colour Printing - 5 hours - £125

This five hour intensive workshop will demonstrate colour printing from start to finish, including creating a contact sheet from a set of negatives. You will learn how to correct colour casts from test sheets through to final prints.
SW Darkroom will supply all paper and chemistry needed, all you will need to bring are your pre-processed negatives. This course does not cover the process of film development, however you can make arrangements for film processing ahead of the workshop if needed.

Student/Member Intro to Black White Printing - £105

This five hour intensive course will demonstrate the process of printing from start to finish, including contact sheets, dodging and burning, split grade exposure and determining the strength and weaknesses of your negatives through to final prints/. SW Darkroom will supply all paper and chemistry needed, all you will need to bring are your pre-processed negatives. This course does not cover the process of film development, however you can make arrangements for film processing ahead of the workshop if needed.

Student/Member Intro to Colour Printing - £105

This five hour intensive workshop will demonstrate colour printing from start to finish, including creating a contact sheet from a set of negatives. You will learn how to correct colour casts from test sheets through to final prints.
SW Darkroom will supply all paper and chemistry needed, all you will need to bring are your pre-processed negatives. This course does not cover the process of film development, however you can make arrangements for film processing ahead of the workshop if needed.

New Clients Printing

New Clients BW or Colour Printing, up to 20"x24" (4 hours) - £75

Mandatory for first-time clients! If it's your initial visit and you're already skilled in printing, this required session includes a comprehensive one-hour walkthrough with our technician to familiarise you with our space and equipment.

BW or Colour printing up to 20" x 24", choose four hour time slot; 10:00am - 14:00 pm, 14:00 pm - 18:00 pm. Time slot might be shared with one or two others.

New Clients BW or Colour Printing up to 20"x24" (Day rate) - £115

Mandatory for first-time clients! If it's your initial visit and you're already skilled in printing, this required session includes a comprehensive one-hour walkthrough with our technician to familiarise you with our space and equipment.

Use of darkroom to print up to 20" x 24",
could possibly be shared with one or two others.

New Clients Student/member - BW or Colour Printing, up to 20"x24"(4 hours) - £69

Mandatory for first-time clients! If it's your initial visit and you're already skilled in printing, this required session includes a comprehensive one-hour walkthrough with our technician to familiarise you with our space and equipment.

BW or Colour printing up to 20" x 24", choose four hour time slot; 10:00am - 14:00 pm, 14:00 pm - 18:00 pm. Time slot might be shared with one or two others.

New Clients Student/Member - BW or Colour Printing, up to 20"x24"(day rate) - £103

Mandatory for first-time clients! If it's your initial visit and you're already skilled in printing, this required session includes a comprehensive one-hour walkthrough with our technician to familiarise you with our space and equipment.

Use of black white darkroom to print up to 20" x 24", could possibly be shared with one or two others.

Returning Clients Printing

BW or Colour Printing, up to 20"x24" (4 hours) - £40

For our returning clients familiar with printing and our space, please proceed with this booking. If it's your first time with us, we kindly ask you to book an induction printing session. New to printing altogether? Start with our comprehensive printing workshop.

BW or Colour printing up to 20" x 24", choose four hour time slot; 10:00am - 14:00 pm, 14:00 pm - 18:00 pm. Time slot might be shared with one or two others.

BW or Colour Printing up to 20"x24" (Day rate) - £80

For our returning clients familiar with printing and our space, please proceed with this booking. If it's your first time with us, we kindly ask you to book an induction printing session. New to printing altogether? Start with our comprehensive printing workshop.

Use of darkroom to print up to 20" x 24",
could possibly be shared with one or two others.

Student/member - BW or Colour Printing, up to 20"x24"(4 hours) - £34

For our returning clients familiar with printing and our space, please proceed with this booking. If it's your first time with us, we kindly ask you to book an induction printing session. New to printing altogether? Start with our comprehensive printing workshop.

Student/Member - BW or Colour Printing, up to 20"x24"(day rate) - £68

For our returning clients familiar with printing and our space, please proceed with this booking. If it's your first time with us, we kindly ask you to book an induction printing session. New to printing altogether? Start with our comprehensive printing workshop.

Use of black white darkroom to print up to 20" x 24", could possibly be shared with one or two others.

Whole darkroom / Technical assistance

Whole Darkroom Day Rate - £250

Private use of the entire darkroom space for large printing black & white up to 54" inch prints, colour printing up to 20" x 24" or for simply having a lovely printing day all to yourself.

Student/member Whole Darkroom Day Rate - £212.50

Private use of the entire darkroom space for large printing black & white up to 54" inch prints, colour printing up to 20" x 24" or for simply having a lovely printing day all to yourself.

Technical assistance half day - £125

Technical assistance whole day - £250

Student/member technical assistance half day - £105

Student/Member technical assistance whole day - £212.50

Special offers

Entire Darkroom Hire, with dedicated technician - £475 (call for appointment)

Private Darkroom access for whole day (8 hours), including technical assistance as needed. Email info@swdarkroom.com to request specific dates, as we can also reserve entire darkroom hire on days not regularly open.

Personalised Workshop on any mutually convenient date - £250

Scheduled on any mutually convenient date, this workshop will be developed to meet your personal interests and needs. If you want to work on a specific technique or have an interest in experimenting with a particular printing process, we can use our technical knowledge to help you achieve your goals, develop your art practice and match you with the best tutor to do so. Please email info@swdarkroom.com with details about your interest, and we will reply with options.

Membership - £80

Membership for 12 months, 15% discount on all services.

Film Processing/Scanning

DIY black/white film processing - £25

Two hour session, does not include technical assistance beyond setting up for you to use. Each additional hour beyond two hours will be charged on the day at £12 per hour. If technical assistance is required, please book a separately listed DIY film processing workshop to get started.

DIY black/white film processing & contact sheet workshop - £85

Learn how to load film into a processing tank and mix chemicals to develop your film. After processing your film, you will be shown how to produce a contact sheet from the negatives.

All materials included.

Bring a roll of undeveloped (shot) 35mm or 120 black and white film ready for processing.

Film developing (only)

Black/White or colour. 35mm or 120. £5 per roll or 5x4 single neg.
7 day turnaround, however sometimes we can do faster - talk to us about it.
email: info@swdarkroom.com . call: 07851643621 . Instagram message: sw_darkroom
If we are not open, please drop film in our RED postal box at bottom of stairs, fill out form with info and leave with film.

Film Developing and Scanning

Film dev & scan
Low Res (5-10mb)JPEG prices (Social Media usage)
BW or colour, 35mm or 120
£9.00

Film dev & scan
Medium (18 mb) JPEG prices
BW or colour, 35mm, 120
£12.00

Film dev & scan
Large (100 mb) TIFF prices
BW or colour, 35mm, 120
£22.00

Add contact sheet prints to any film process/scan order.
10" x 12" contact sheets will be an additional £8 per sheet, BW or colour.
7 day turnaround, however sometimes we can do faster - talk to us about it.
email: info@swdarkroom.com . call: 07851643621 . Instagram message: sw_darkroom (less) If we are not open, please drop film in our RED postal box at bottom of stairs, fill out form with info and leave with film.

Noritsu scanning

Noritsu cut roll scanning
Low res JPEG (5-10 mb) £12.00
Med (18 mb) JPEG £22.00
Large (100mb)TIFF £30.00

Noritsu Uncut Roll Scanning
Low res (5-10 mb)JPEG £7.00
Med (18 mb) JPEG £19.00
Large (100mb) TIFF £24.00
7 day turnaround, however sometimes we can do faster - talk to us about it.
email: info@swdarkroom.com . call: 07851643621 . Instagram message: sw_darkroom (less)
If we are not open, please drop film in our RED postal box at bottom of stairs, fill out form with info and leave with film.

Imacon Scanning

Designed for scanning specific single images to high resolution.
35mm, 120 and 4x5 film formats
20mb £5.00
80mb £14.00
150mb £16.00
7 day turnaround, however sometimes we can do faster - talk to us about it.
email: info@swdarkroom.com . call: 07851643621 . Instagram message: sw_darkroom (less)
If we are not open, please drop film in our RED postal box at bottom of stairs, fill out form with info and leave with film.