Light Waves Imaging

07/01/2019

Underdog Film Lab is now live on facebook and instagram. Please follow us there for updates! Underdog Film Lab

02/16/2019

After an exhausting two year search we've finally signed a lease on a perfect space in West Oakland!!

Be on the lookout for Underdog Film Lab in mid 2019!

We're really excited to start this new chapter and get to work making this the best pro lab in the country.

Thank you all for sticking by us! This has been a tough search, but the regular check ins from you all kept us motivated when it looked like we weren't going to be able to pull this off.

Can't wait to see you all again!

-Your Underdog Film Lab team (Dirk, Matt, Brian, and Jesse)

08/12/2018

This plant isn't dead and neither are we!

While it's been a rough year and things are taking longer than we would have liked, we haven't given up yet!

Thank you to everyone who's reached out and checked up on us. We hope to have a more specific update shortly.

In the meantime keep shooting film! We look forward to seeing you all again at the new space!

-Dirk and Jesse

(Original photo from Light Waves 130 Russ Street by Daniel Dent)

06/29/2017

Hi Light Waves customers! Dirk and I have been out looking at potential spaces regularly. We're confident we're going to find something and look forward to seeing you all when we do!

In the meantime, I've just pulled our Imacon and flatbed scanners, as well as our production computers out of storage and set them up in my garage.

If anyone is in need of any scanning, editing, or retouching please message me privately here on facebook or shoot me an email at [email protected].

Hope to see you all in a new space soon!
-Jesse (Your former printer/scanner)

04/04/2017

Sorry it’s been so long since our last post, we were hoping our first update would be more positive. Unfortunately, we had a bit of a setback. After two months of searching, we had found a great space just around the corner from the old Light Waves but literally the day before we were to sign the lease two of our partners pulled out of the whole venture. This meant we had to pass on the space and renew our search efforts. By necessity, we have widened our search to the whole bay area, but rest assured, if we end up outside of San Francisco we will still have a drop off and pick up point within the city. We are making every effort to find a suitable location as fast as possible, but realistically it might be a few more months. We hope you can continue to remain patient, and we thank you all for the encouragement you have given us these last few months.

Sincerely,
Dirk and Jesse

01/13/2017

12/03/2016

After over 30 years Light Waves will be closing! Michael Pazdon, the owner of Light Waves, is retiring and is in the process of selling the building at 130 Russ St. I am partnering with Jesse Hitchins, Matt Osborne, Gordon Szeto and Alson Tom to open a new lab to serve the needs of the SF photo community. Gamma Black & White will also be a part of this new venture. We are currently looking for the perfect location in the SOMA area of SF and hope to be open sometime in the first quarter of 2017. I want to personally thank all of you who have been our customers. I feel blessed to have met and worked with such amazing photographers over these last 20 years! I look forward to continuing to work with many of you and creating the best pro photo lab San Francisco has ever seen.

Dirk Hatch,
Manager of Light Waves Imaging

09/24/2016

Time to start shooting

07/30/2016

It’s 2007, four years after digital photography spiked to prominence, eclipsing the sales of film. I’m working in the West Hollywood studio of one...

07/19/2016

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