Vanbar Imaging

Great service, very kind and friendly staff. A huge range of products, convenient location and they developed my photos way ahead of the time stated. The photos were amazing quality and easy to access online. I will always develop my film here. They are the best and very affordable too!

The nicest people in the photography business. I have tried most film developing places in Melbourne, and Vanbar is hands down the quickest, most affordable and friendliest place of them all!

excellent source of professional photography and film scanning equipment. Prices are very reasonable and competitive with superb sales and click and collect service. After placing my order online I was able to pick it up within hours with appropriate covid awareness processing.I was even able to register online as a VIP member and be entitled to the free newsletter.There is free parking for customers in the street and also offstreet parking in Leicester Street.The site is open Saturday for click and collect.

I visited to buy a tripod and received amazing service and assistance from Michael. He took the time to show me various options and how I could attach my gear for filming.Am so grateful that a store with so much stock and staff with knowledge exists.Highly recommend if you need camera/AV gear.

Purchased an instant camera as a present. There was a problem with the camera, used all the expensive film trying to sort it out, ended up bringing it in to be fixed. Jack was lovely, took the camera in to be repaired and followed up well. Picked up the camera, lovely staff member helped me work out all the over complicated parts. I requested a film to replace the expensive one I used up trying to fix the camera, the boss Peter refused to provide the wasted film on the broken camera sold to me free of charge. No good will at all for my inconvenience and wasted film. Good staff let down by a pathetic boss who even refused to come out from the back himself. It’s a good job his staff are lovely. The one star is for Peter.

Not bad but not great. First of all, the staff at the store are very nice and helpful and I have nothing against them. I ordered a develop+scan+print of two rolls of film. The development and scans were fine but the prints were truely awful. I reccomend just getting scans done. I also got an additional two rolls of film processed and pre-paid for scans. I didn't realise the rolls were actually blank and expected to get my money back for the scanning part, given there was nothing to scan. I was told I could only get a credit, which would be fine except I had no plans to return to the store. After forty-five minutes of waiting, I finally got my money back. The boss of the store didn't even come out to talk to me about this and instead staff had to go back and forth acting as an intermediary. While I am very grateful for the kindess of the staff, I think the response of the manager leaves a lot to be desired.

Best value C41 dev and print hands Down

What wonderful and knowledgeable customer service.As an amateur photographer, it's always daunting walking into a shop full of experts but Vanbar were just amazing and down to earth.I am really pleased with my tripod and remote purchase. Thanks Gary! The vanbar gang even took the time to talk to me about filters.We will be back!

Fast turn around times on film processing, helpful and knowledgeable staff, and they offer E-6 developing! I've been recommending Vanbar to just about anyone that shoots film, you won't find better service in Melbourne

Amazing knowledge when it comes to developing and chemicals. Had an issue with my setup at home and though the first time discussing this with one of the workers wasnt helpful (the worker wouldnt listen to the actual issue I was having), the next time I went in, a different worker listened to what I was trying to explain and went and asked one of the technicians in the lab to see if she could figure out what I was doing wrong. She was extremely helpful.The store has a huge range of darkroom equipment and aside from that one staff member who was a bit rude, everyone else there have been great each time I've visited. I'll be coming back for my darkroom needs!