Lakeland Film Lab to carry analog images again to St. Pete this fall

Vinyl is again. Flip telephones are trending once more. And movie images is having a second too.

This fall, St. Pete photographers may have a brand new place to develop movie, lease cameras, be taught darkroom strategies, and join with fellow creatives.

Lakeland Film Lab is headed to 2821 Central Avenue, taking up a 1,300-square-foot storefront within the Grand Central District between Cheeky’s Fish & Raw Bar and the not too long ago introduced Nightwatch wine bar.

The St. Pete location would be the firm’s second. Husband-and-wife duo Nick and Elizabeth Buttrey launched the primary Lakeland Film Lab in downtown Lakeland final yr.

Since opening, the Lakeland retailer has taken off. They’ve even developed movie for just a few massive musicians, together with Coi Leray, SZA, and Snoop Dogg.

The St. Pete store, anticipated to debut in November, will provide most of the identical companies as its Lakeland counterpart, akin to movie processing, scanning, movie gross sales, courses, and neighborhood occasions, whereas including a number of new options, together with digital camera leases, a neighborhood darkroom, and a customized picture sales space designed particularly for St. Pete.

There may even be a espresso counter that includes rotating native pop-ups, with espresso, matcha, and boba distributors taking up the area for 3 to 4 months at a time.