{"id":348812,"date":"2026-07-22T17:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348812\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:32:11","slug":"tampa-film-lab-sees-gen-z-fueling-film-photography-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348812\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa film lab sees Gen Z fueling film photography comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shpydxvzuqzz7p95.jpg\" alt=\"Developing a new love for old format\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shpydxvzuqzz7p95.jpg\" alt=\"Developing a new love for old format\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-6546b402=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/video\/fmc-t9my69wyhy1kmmbn\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Developing a new love for old format<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">In a world where most pictures live on phones,\u00a0 Coastal Film Lab is seeing a surprising demand for rolls of film, family slides and the hands-on work it takes to develop them. FOX 13 has the story.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; In a world where most pictures live on phones, Coastal Film Lab is helping keep traditional photography alive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Tampa business processes color and black-and-white film, scans negatives and restores old family slides so customers can easily share their memories digitally.<\/p>\n<p> Tampa film lab demand  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Employee Victor Rivera says the demand proves film photography is far from disappearing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;People that think that film is dead, I&#8217;d have to show them what we&#8217;re doing here. The amount of people that come in day to day and have us process their film is a large amount of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vlcsnap-2026-07-22-11h26m09s865.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The lab handles hundreds of rolls each day, with employees developing film, correcting colors and repairing damaged images.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Rivera says many of the lab\u2019s newer customers are members of Gen Z, who are drawn to the hands-on experience of shooting with film cameras.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">For many of the employees, photography started as a hobby before becoming a profession.<\/p>\n<p> Visit the Lab <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coastalfilmlab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Coastal Film Lab<\/a> is located at 1704 N. Nebraska Ave. in Tampa. The shop is open Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was gathered from an interview with Coastal Film Lab employee Victor Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/business\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developing a new love for old format In a world where most pictures live on phones,\u00a0 Coastal Film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[558,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-348812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-business","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}