Analog film photography and cameras

really? I am in love with colour prints, nowhere near as easy to play with as b&w, and I really don't have a good eye for colour balance :/ but there's still a richness I can't get from a scan. only done really basic prints so far, finding contrast hard to control (too much of it, generally) and it's so expensive in a proper darkroom haven't done any for well over a year. need to renew my membership.

ML: that Plustek scanner does look the business. any idea how much it'll be?

I haven't been able to find a lab that has an older machine that gets prints in the old way, i.e. englarging to paper!

95% of lab machines since about 2005 take a digi scan of the neg, then print in a digital manner, i.e. not with photo paper but with inkjet type of papers. For the newest machines they are actually very very good, but often don't go larger than about 8x6" which isn't really enough for most things.