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If you have ever shot medium-format slide film and spent an anxious week wondering whether anyone in Thailand could actually process it, A&B Digital Lab is the answer.
The lab is something of a Bangkok institution, operating out of a cluster of shophouses on Phahon Yothin Road, opposite Central Ladprao, near MRT Phahon Yothin. It handles a volume and variety of film processes that most labs will not touch.
The E-6 capability is the headline: A&B turns around slide film in around five days, which is genuinely fast for a process that requires temperature-critical six-bath chemistry. C-41 is quicker still, usually around three hours. The lab also handles B&W and ECN-2 motion picture film, and is, by most accounts, the only place in Bangkok selling 120-format ECN-2 film rolled in-house. Medium-format Kodak Vision3 in 120 is an unusual thing to find anywhere; here you can buy it and have it processed on the same trip.
A small caveat: scan quality from the Fuji Frontier scanner has received mixed reviews. Output is JPEG only, and some users have reported minor compression artefacts. If you need pristine scans, consider developing at A&B and scanning elsewhere. But for speed, breadth of process and sheer reliability, this lab has few rivals in the city.
A&B Digital Lab, Chatuchak (1152/13 Phahon Yothin Rd, opposite Central Ladprao). Open daily, 9.30am–8pm. Check availability or contact the lab directly before visiting.