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"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.
Liquid Light® photographic
emulsion for prints on wood, glass, ceramics, plastics, china, fabrics,
metal, stone, paper, artist's canvas, walls -- even an egg.
Printing with Liquid Light is the same as
with black-and-white enlargement paper. Under amber or red safelight,
brush the emulsion onto a surface. Expose with an enlarger or slide
projector. Process with standard paper developer and fixer.
Prints are archivally-permanent with a
full range of tones and transparent highlights that reveal the color and
texture of the material underneath. Contrast is medium-high
(approximately #3).
Coverage is approximately 1˝ square feet
per ounce, or about 12 sq ft from this 8-ounce bottle. No fumes, odors
or VOC's -- Liquid Light is completely darkroom-safe.
Item: RO-LLE/8
per 8-oz bottle
Use this Add To Cart button to buy:
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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 than Fuji, and much less than Kodak. This is 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
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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.
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no dedicated darkroom
space is required
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scanned images can be
distributed by e-mail and on the web.
Disadvantages
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Good image modification software is
not cheap,
nor is it easy to master
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inkjet printing is more
expensive than darkroom printing
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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.
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the scanning and
printing process is, surprisingly, no faster than darkroom
printing, and can be significantly slower.
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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!
Bargain! Ansco Panoramic Camera, specially priced because it's
not panoramic.
There's a story here. The Ansco Panoramic is
widely regarded as the best of the cheap plastic "thrift store
quality" cameras, with a surprisingly good lens. It's actually a
very good snapshot camera, giving excellent 4x6 prints. If you don't
believe me, ask Google. So we bought a supply with our Lomographically-oriented
friends in mind, and people who want a decent but cheap way to get the
kids started in photography.
When they arrived, the panoramic adapters were missing.
Very disappointing, because being able to shoot true Lomo-quality
panoramic images was at least half the fun.
But the fact remains, these
are pretty darn good examples of the type, even if they only give you
plain old ordinary 35mm images, instead of panoramic. (Of course,
you can always mask the film plane with electrician's tape if you really
want panoramic.)
Item:
AMPANCAM
Camera only.
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Buy five rolls of
our ProMax ISO 400 film and we'll throw in an Ansco Nonpanoramic for
just $0.01 more.
Item:CAMKIT
Camera with 5 rolls of ISO 400 b/w film.
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In the spirit of low-cost photography,
develop your black and white films at home using vitamin C, instant
coffee, and laundry brightener. Click here
for details.
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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