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  Locate the item you want using our online catalog. Click the "Add To Cart" button.
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You must be satisfied. Merchandise (except film) can be returned, for any reason, within thirty days of receipt, and your purchase price will be refunded (click here for details).

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Should you trust "expired" film? Click here to find out.

Important: exposed film should be processed promptly. Click here for details.

Film or Digital? Click here for an opinion.


Introducing the first 127 roll film to be made in North America since 1995: Bluefire Murano 160. 
This superb ISO 160 color print film is made in Canada, 
and shipped worldwide from Nampa, Idaho.
Bluefire Murano 160
127 color print film, ISO 160
Temporarily out of stock

Per roll:

Click here to see examples of this film in use.

Looking for a pinhole-camera science fair experiment? Here it is!
Important information for Polaroid SX-70 users: click here.

Bluefire® high-resolution film and chemicals 110 film 126 film

"Definition of micro-detail was of a very high standard - higher, in fact, than found with any standard film." (Geoffrey Crawley, writing a review of Bluefire Police in Amateur Photographer Magazine, July 9 2005, p. 38).

Bluefire Police™ is a medium-speed (EI 80) ultra-high resolution 35mm black and white film that can be enlarged to extremes without showing noticeable grain.


Click here to see what Donge's whiskers look like from 60 feet away when photographed with high-resolution Bluefire Police film. 

Click here to see Bluefire Police enlarged more than 60x with no image degradation due to grain (most films cannot be successfully enlarged beyond 10x).Click here to go to the Bluefire catalog page.

Bluefire Police is an excellent replacement for 35mm Kodak Technical Pan.

Click here for an explanation of what "high resolution" means.


A sad note:

from The Calgary Herald,  August 14, 2007

Donge, a 22-year-old western lowland gorilla that had been at the zoo since she was three years old, was put to sleep Friday. She had been suffering from an inflammatory intestinal disease, called diverticulitis, for years and never quite recovered from her last surgery.

"From the last surgery she had probably ten days ago now, she was not bouncing back and her condition worsened," Garth Irvine, the zoo's gorilla keeper, told CTV Calgary on Monday. "It was a struggle to get medications into her and a struggle to get food into her, she just continued to get worse."



Now available: photographic chemicals and darkroom equipment.
With so many full-line camera stores getting away from darkroom supply, chemistry we took for granted a few years ago is becoming difficult to find. Click here.

a non-toxic developer for pinhole camera images that you can make from common kitchen and laundry ingredients. Excellent for science fair projects, and plenty good enough for everyday photography. Click here.

News from Japan: in 2007, factory shipments of color print film to the Japanese home market dropped 31% (year to year comparison). One-time-use cameras and slide film fell 21% and 25% respectively. Black and white film quantities were so small they are not reported. Digital camera sales, 10 million units. Film camera sales, 54,000 units.

 In January 2008, Japanese camera factories produced 450 35mm cameras and 1.9 million digital cameras. 

 Fujifilm has bought Toyama Chemicals to pave its way into the pharmaceuticals business.

  Solaris 200-24 110
Solaris FG 110, ISO 200 film dated late 2007.
24 exposures per cartridge.
Ferrania continues to manufacture 110 film. We buy it factory-fresh and store it cold.

Fresh dated
per pkg of 3 rolls

   
This is an excellent fine-grained, beautiful film from Italy. 24 exposures per cartridge. Its cost is relatively lower, not because it's a cheap film, but because we bought it un-boxed in bulk cartons, so you aren't paying for expensive packaging.

Click here to go to the comprehensive 110 film page to view the full product line and price list.
Click here to view Fuji 110 film, outdated but guaranteed, at a very good price.


To scan or not to scan...

Photographers all over the world are rapidly converting from darkroom printing to electronic printing. This involves scanning your negative or slide on a dedicated film scanner, and then printing on an inkjet printer.

Inkjet printers are readily available, but film scanners are not. We recommend Nikon scanners for their superior software, excellent workflow, and quality optics.

Advantages of scanning

  • many people find it faster and easier to adjust image qualities like contrast, shadow and highlight detail, and color balance using Adobe PhotoShop or similar programs rather than by trial and error in a darkroom.

  • no dedicated darkroom space is required

  • scanned images can be distributed by e-mail and on the web.

Disadvantages

  • Good image modification software is not cheap, nor is it easy to master

  • inkjet printing is more expensive than darkroom printing

  • most dye-based inkjet inks and papers fade more easily than correctly-processed traditional photographic prints. Pigment inks resist fading, but you have to get a printer specifically designed to use them.

  • the scanning and printing process is, surprisingly,  no faster than darkroom printing, and can be significantly slower.



Click here for information on making Instamatic pinhole cameras.



126 Instamatic film
We have several thousand rolls in stock, and anticipate being able to supply this film for many more years.
Solaris FGPlus 200-126 is a much better film than the Kodacolor II your grandmother used. Fits all 126 "Instamatic" cameras.

"My kid's having a lot of fun with the instamatic and 126 film. The results are fantastic, far better than when I was a kid, but the same camera. Must be the quality of the film and the processing."  Australia

   Item: SOL126-1
  per roll
(3 roll minimum)
Use this Add To Cart button to buy three or more single rolls.

      

Item: SOL126-10
10 roll package,
(use this Add To Cart button to buy 10-roll "bricks")
      

Item: SOL126-30
Carton of 30 rolls,
(use this Add To Cart button to buy 30-roll cartons)
      


Minox film
We're proud to be an authorized Minox dealer


Genuine Minox film and supplies, imported from Germany. Click here. How good is this ultra-tiny film? Click here to see.

Unfortunately,  Acmel Reala Ace film for 8x11 cameras has been discontinued by the manufacturer and is no longer available.


Lomography can be great fun!


 Shanghai GP3 — a very good 120 b/w film priced appropriately for students and experimenters.


 The Frugal Photographer's
Non-toxic Film Developer — make it at home from instant coffee and vitamin C. Develop Shanghai GP3 film shot in your Holga or pinhole camera. Click here for details.


 

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