I was hoping someone could recommend a good place I can send a few rolls of B&W film for development. Ideally a place that will just develop the film and send me the negatives...I'll make the prints later.
The reason is that I have some rolls to develop, but am very busy with work right now and it will be awhile before I can make it to the local art studio and develop them myself. I know a local photo place can do it, but they charge a bundle and it takes forever.

Thanks!

Where are you located?

Art.

I live in central MN. I'm guessing there's a place in the Twin Cities area, but I've sent slide film out to places pretty far away and it's come back fairly quick, so mail order may be easiest.

The closest good B&W labs I know in your area are in Chicago.

The Print Lab is dedicated to only B&W film - http://www.printlab.com/
and Gamma is a full service pro lab http://www.gammaphoto.com/

I don't know if either do 'mail order' exactly, but I'd give them both a call. I'm sure you can mail them the film and make arrangements for prints to be mailed back.

Regards, Art.

They both look like very good bets. Thanks!!

A little off topic, but if you know before you shoot that you will not be able to develop them yourself, have you tried C41 B&W film? I've done that a few times myself and dropped them off at a one hour place; soup only, return negs uncut. Only about $2 a roll, and I can still print them when I want or have time. Just a thought.

Has anyone ever tried these folks?

http://www.dr5.com/main.html

I am very curious about how the negs from this process turn out...

Yes. They come out positive.

Art.

I tried some 4x5 TMAX 100 and the dr5 neutral positives I got back were excellent. Scanned very nicely using Vuescan with an Epson 3200 flatbed.