From 0 to 151 rolls: how RafLabs came to life after 4,601 frames

I started 2025 never having shot film. I ended it running my own lab. Here's what the data looks like for 2025.

On January 1st, 2025, I had never shot a single roll of film in my life.

That changed when my mom brought me my uncle’s old Nikon camera. The moment I held that mechanical body and heard the shutter click for the first time, something clicked inside me too. By the end of this year, I had developed 151 rolls of film and scanned 4,601 frames in my own home…