Rocket Photo Lab

A photo print for my boyfriend for Christmas. A very small order. Costco effed it up, I was out of time and without a car. Rocket Photo Lab is close by and had my print ready in an hour. Even printed up two versions so I had a choice. GREAT customer service!

I’m only writing a review now because I’ve been dissatisfied with their service lately. I love helping out small businesses and they are nice people and the pricing are very reasonable, but they seem to not have a clue when you ask questions about your photos and process. They give basic answers.
Most of my films that get developed here are 80% successful, but when I have to wait 2 weeks for 1 roll of black and white film that they send out is so discouraging! Medium formats are they same way, if not longer because they send those out too.
Just beware that this is not a big place, tho they have a photography studio behind the drop off area, you will have to wait a couple of days to get your negatives. Scans are also in small jpegs too.
Thank you for your service, but I have to move on and find a new place to developed my films in the valley and have these concerns go away.

Best place ever for developing films.
I took my 35 mm and was developed in a very prompted manner. It was very inexpensive.
They are people of few words but very kind indeed.
I also went there for passport pictures. Good as well!
She took many pictures of me and printed the best out of them.
Highly recommended!

First of all, I would like to say that I received 5 star service at Rocket, but knocking off 1 star for short weekday business hours. With that being said, I do love this place; fast service, friendly knowledgeable employees, consistent products, quaint local location, parking, and more.
For example, I had accidentally open my 35 mm film camera with film still inside, which had separated from the canister during the wind process. My film was saved when taken in and opened in the dark room, I only lost one photo out of 36 exposures. Not only were my negatives/​photos saved, they were printed and scanned onto a disc within two hours at the end up a busy weekday.
Additionally, the person helping was remained positive during my anxiety of possibly losing an entire roll of film. So, I definitely would recommend this business for your local photo printing services.
Thanks, Rocket!

Ruined 4 rolls of film (medium format) and chalked it up to «it happens». Don was gracious enough to reimburse me for the cost of my film. I just wonder how he would handle telling my clients that their black and white engagement photos didn’t come out because well… «it happens».
Obviously I cannot hold Rocket Photo accountable for a risk that will always be there when shooting film. but I’m pretty sure any customer deserves a better apology than «it happens».
I’ve been bringing my film here and telling every film shooter I know about this place for the last 3 years. I’m definitely rethinking that now.

Awesome Service! I came in with slides of photos which were about 25 years old. Rocket lab scanned my photos onto a cd, exchanged my slides for new ones and printed a group of memorable photos.

The lady here was extremely nice and super helpful in help on me decide on sizes of pictures.

I had some enlargements made from slides here. Fantastic! I love this little place. Thom P.‘s review is exactly accurate, down to celebrating at the deli next door.

If you blink, you may miss it…
The rating is for film processing only as I don’t know what else they do, but seem to do it well. I really like this place. It’s old school shop nestle on a corner that practically shares a parking lot with Hardy’s deli in Studio City.
This is a plus, b/​c after you drop off film, you can celebrate your artistic fortitude for shooting film with some steaks. Or BBQ. Or craft beer. Cheap. Although you may use the beer to ice your arm down from patting yourself on the back, as I often do.
The service is quick and is CHEAP. 35 mm is listed @ $ 2.99 roll. 120 @ $ 3.99 — C41 prices. I think 220 film is $ 7.50 and E6 is a bit steep. That is done out of house though. NO 4×5. Not sure how their scanning is because I do my own.
I’ve been to top notch pro places. And for the comparable processing to the fast turnaround, you aren’t going to beat them. BONUS… there is a night drop. This is great since often times I would shoot on weekends and just don’t like sitting on my neg until Monday. Parking is a little tight. You have to enter on Moorpark and take the drive thru the alley to three spots. But I’ve never had an issue, perhaps at other times some other people might.

great inexpensive place for excellent film processing.

To all you purists: this is one of the last few places in the valley to process all your little rolls of film. Great prices, amazing service and all my photos turn out perfect! (And not because of my amaZeballs photog skills)

After buying an old Canon AE-​1 and shooting a few rolls of film, I had them developed at Walgreens just for a quick turnaround and some practice. But every time my prints would come back terribly discolored and it was really just a waste of money. So I looked up a professional place because I was sick of burning cash. I came to Rocket Photo Lab and just got my first roll back. The images are fantastic. The color is great. And honestly it didn’t cost me any more than Walgreens. Rocket was super easy to work with and I’ll definitely be bringing my film here from now on because I know it will be processed correctly and I’ll get back my film and not be bummed that some really photos I was really excited to see came out discolored. Go see these guys. They just made my day. Woo!

They still process film! I had a roll in an old camera that I had forgotten about. They processed it for me. I was so happy. Also they make it so easy now with emailing my images and I go pick up the prints. :)

I came to this photo lab to get some photos developed for my new film camera. They came out great! The process was incredibly quick and efficiently done! The owner, Don Hagopian was very welcome and friendly when I first visited his photo lab. He doesn’t even charge me for the ones that came out white/​black and personally color-​fixed the rest of the photos. I just found myself my brand new source for film developing!

I needed 11×14 enlargements and several 5×7’s for Xmas gifts. I live in the neighborhood and couldn’t face a drive to Costco, so I gave Rocket a try.
The technician let me come back to her computer and look at color-​correction options, cropping, etc. Once I approved the look, the pic was off to printer while I looked at the next pic. The color on all of them was rich and spot on!
Total time, including writing up the bill (btw, pricing is very reasonable), was 19 minutes (less than the time to drive to Costco or finding parking there).
Try Rocket instead of the photo-​mills.

This is a great hidden gem. The place doesn’t look like much and it’s easy to miss it.
However, their print quality is just great. The lady that works there checks your files to make sure the color and brightness are right and will correct them for you prior to printing. This is a huge help as my computer screen is very bright and we tend to over correct on brightness on our photo files.
Their prices are very reasonable as well.
Call ahead as the hours are a bit limited.

Great quality, awesome service! Just got 2 rolls back and the results are stunning! They actually color correct and the photos come back looking great.
It turns out the owner is the photographer who has the photo studio in the back. He was tired of other labs messing up his stuff, so he built his own. He does all his own stuff through the lab along with everyone else’s, so you know it’ll get done right. Prices are reasonable too!
I’m never taking my film anywhere else! These guys rock!

I have taken my film and digital photos there for processing. The quality can’t be beat. They correct for color so every picture is great.
No big deal picking up the pictures from the studio after the lady closes the lab. Nice people and helpful. They know what they are doing. Check out their Studio. Great Photography! Park in the back.

the last time i picked up prints here i hadn’t called ahead and the woman wasn’t there. i just went around to the back and the people at the studio let me in and rang me up.
i feel like i made the place sound like the pits in my first review, but i obviously love it or i wouldn’t have given it five stars. twice.