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Panopticon Imaging

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Panopticon Imaging

Please visit our web site: http://www.panopticonimaging.com We are an all service digital and darkroom photo-imaging lab, located in Southeastern Massachusetts.

Panopticon Imaging specializes in exhibition-quality art printing, framing, and image conservation and restoration utilizing traditional and digital technologies. We serve a diverse array of local, national and international photographers, educational institutions, historical archives and museums. The staff at Panopticon Imaging strives to offer the highest-quality services in a prompt manner with

integrity and excellent customer services. Our staff has decades of photographic experience- specializing in darkroom and digital printing, photo restoration, high-resolution scanning, custom matting and framing and all of your photographic and imaging needs.

04/07/2026

Running our routine focus calibration on our Flextight X5 Scanner today! This is the scanner that we use for our high resolution scans of 110, APS, 35mm, 120 (including panoramic), and 4x5 film.

The Hasselblad Flextight X5 is an exceptional scanner that is capable of producing an image file up to 8000ppi/16bit color. While there are other scanners that output a higher resolution, the Flextight produces both sharper images as well as a higher range of density. It achieves this by operating similar to a drum scanner, the negative is curved in a radius and guided by a sensor, this tightens the material and allows the material to be scanned perfectly flat. The Flextight’s CCD faces downwards, this means that when making scans there is no glass between the lens and the negative, which increases sharpness.

Sample image from a medium format negative shot by Connor (of Alexa)

03/06/2026

Honored to help bring this piece to life with printing and framing for ’s work in Reciprocal Ecology, curated by .

See it in person tonight 5–8pm at .inc

03/03/2026

We recently produced a set of silver gelatin darkroom prints for by transforming digital files into negatives using our LVT (Light Valve Technology) machine. This process uses light to expose the image onto black and white film, which can then be printed traditionally in the darkroom, creating a true silver negative and darkroom print. This is considered the sharpest way to make a print from a digital file!

Even more special: the photographs are by .manos, who was one of the very first artists to use this same LVT machine at Panopticon years ago.

Analog innovation, decades later, still making prints the old-fashioned way!

02/24/2026

Due to today’s travel ban, Panopticon Imaging will be closed to help keep everyone safe.

We’re still working from home and available over email, so feel free to reach out with questions, orders, or ideas. Being stuck inside on a snow day is the perfect excuse to finally get your project started!

Storm Storm Winter Photo Contest:
Headed out (safely!) or shooting from your window? Post your best storm photo, tag , and we’ll pick a winner to receive a free 11×14 print of any image of their choice.

We’ll be back tomorrow, ready to process all those snowstorm negatives!

Stay safe, stay warm, and we’ll see you soon ❄️📸

02/14/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day from Panopticon Imaging 💘

02/06/2026

We first connected with during First Look 2025 at Panopticon Gallery, and have been so pleased to continue working with him for his exhibition Where They Still Remain, currently on view at

We partnered with Austin from the very beginning: reviewing test prints, dialing in materials, and then printing and framing his images for the exhibition. We had a great time at the opening reception for this project, part of The Griffin’s Manifest Destiny exhibition.

Don’t miss his online artist talk Feb 26th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

01/15/2026

We recently had the opportunity to print a portfolio of 11x14 silver gelatin fiber prints for the The Autry Museum of the American West’s () collection. These photographs were made by documentary photographer Terry McDonell in the early 1970s, and these prints were made from the original 35mm negatives.

Terry writes, “In the summer of 1973 I photographed Stanley “Tookie” Williams, founder of the West Side Crips, along with five original members. They all wanted their pictures taken, and posed — “fronting off,” as they called it. Five years later, there were 45 Crips gangs in Los Angeles County. By the early 1980s, the number of Crips “sets” in LA County had more than doubled. The crack co***ne epidemic pushed them into at least 41 states, and the gang became widely referenced in music, film, and media as a symbol of gang culture and urban violence — a fixture in American pop culture. Despite the notoriety, there are few photographs of the early members, and none presenting themselves as they wanted to be seen.”

10/21/2025

An overhead look at preparing a disposable camera to be developed

Today is the last day to enter our Halloween giveaway - check our pinned post for information 🎃

10/08/2025

🎃 HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY 🕸️

Film is undead this Halloween at Panopticon Imaging with the chance to win:

🎞️ 5 rolls of ’s 35mm monster film
🧪 $125 lab credit at Panopticon Imaging for film processing & scanning

How to enter:
1. ❤️ Like this post
2. Follow
3. Tag a friend (1 tag=1 entry unlimited entries)
4. Bonus: Share to your story for 5 extra entries 🧛‍♀️

Ends Oct 22 — winner announced Oct 23!
U.S. only

09/23/2025

Grace by Scott Offen - opening reception this Thurs 9/25 6-8pm at !

We printed 28 photographs from Grace on Canson Baryta paper, a digital darkroom paper perfect for black & white images. We finished the series in custom colored grey frames with museum glass to eliminate glare and ensure the work remains fully archival.

Thursday’s reception at Panopticon Gallery is free and open to all, with light refreshments served. Join us to meet the artist, purchase your own copy of Offen’s book, and see the work in person!

04/04/2025

We had the pleasure of working with Lisa McCarty to print and frame her image for the exhibition, Photo Faculty, opening tomorrow at . This exhibition, curated by , brings together the work of 52 photography educators from 14 institutions within the greater Boston area, each balancing educating others with their own image making process.

The opening reception is tomorrow, Saturday April 5th from 5pm-7pm. Photo Faculty will be on view at the Photographic Resource Center until May 17th.

Address

540 Union Street
Rockland, MA
02370

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	8am - 5:30pm
Friday	8am - 5:30pm
Saturday	10am - 2pm

Telephone

+17817401300

Website

http://www.panopticonimaging.com/

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