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Welcome to the Frugal Photographer On-line Catalog
Be sure to read How to order
from The Frugal Photographer, and how
we process and ship your order.
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links:
110 film, 126 film,
127 film, 120 film, 35mm
film, Minox film, Bluefire
film and chemistry, darkroom chemicals, slide
mounts, flash bulbs and flashcubes, film processing services
Click the GO TO button, and you'll be taken to the indicated item or catalog page.
Please note that prices are in $US.
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126
Instamatic film
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For use in any "Instamatic"
format camera (but not the 110 Pocket Instamatic) — and a wonderful way to make a 24-exposure pinhole
camera.
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Processing is available for this
film. Click here. |
Your
126 Instamatic camera does not have to end its days in disgrace, covered
in dust on a shelf.
Put it back to work with fresh Solaris FG200-24 126 film
from Ferrania. It's a much better film than the Kodacolor X your
grandma used in 1965.
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127 roll film
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The size 127 film was introduced in 1912, and it's still
available from Frugal Photographer.
Note: you can process 127 film at home,
including color film, with our compact developing tank, which has a
setting for 127 film. Click here.
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Bluefire Murano 160
an excellent ISO 160 color print film
in 127 size, currently manufactured in Canada.
Processing is available for this film. Click here.
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Although Kodak
stopped making 127 in 1995, with most of the rest of the industry
following suit almost immediately, 127 is once again being made, in
Canada, for shipment worldwide.
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110
Pocket Instamatic film
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For use in any "Pocket
Instamatic" camera.
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We recommend Blue
Moon in Portland, Oregon, as an excellent processor of
110
film. |
By all
measures, 110 has been a hugely successful film format, but after more
than a third of a century, it's nearing the end of its life, and you may not be able to find
it locally any more.
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Personal
microfilm
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A dream come true for genealogists,
scientists, historians, and researchers of all kinds.
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When processed in soft chemistry, such as Bluefire HR, Bluefire Police
gives pictorial images. When processed in microfilm chemistry, such as
Bluefire Micro, it gives hard document-copy images. |
Bluefire Police 35mm film is
fast, camera-speed microfilm loaded into conventional 35mm
cartridges, 24 exposures per cartridge, that you can use in any 35mm
camera. Now you can document your library research with your own camera.
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35mm film
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Be sure to also check out our Amazon Store, where
we link you to an extensive selection of name-brand 35mm films.
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Processing is available for this film. Click here.
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ProMax brand, a very
good black and white 35mm film, specially purchased in
factory lot quantities. Both ISO 100 and 400 speeds are available.
Priced for students (and for all photographers
who are just plain frugal).
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120 roll film
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Be sure to check out our Amazon Store, where
we link you to an extensive selection of name-brand 120 films.
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Processing is available for this film. Click here.
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GP3
is a very
good black and white roll film in 120 size, specially purchased in
factory lot quantities. This Chinese film is comparable in image quality
to Kodak Plus-X, AgfaPan 100, and Ilford FP-4, because it's made in a
thoroughly modern factory with first-class quality control.
Priced for students (and for all photographers
who are just plain frugal).
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Sheet film
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We don't stock sheet films in our warehouse, but you will find them in our Amazon Store, where
we link you to an extensive selection.
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Processing is available for sheet film. Click here.
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The best values in sheet film
are found on Amazon.com.
We have done the work for you, locating and organizing what is
available onto an easily-used catalog page. This
link will take you there.
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Minox
film and supplies
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The amazing Minox B
We are proud to be an authorized Minox
distributor. |
We recommend Blue
Moon in Portland, Oregon, as an excellent processor of Minox film.
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If you own a
Minox 8x11 "spy" camera (or a Yashica Atoron), you should be
using it.
These are amazing
machines that can produce photographs of extraordinary quality, despite
being small enough to hide in a candy bar wrapper. We're
proud to be authorized Minox dealers and offer these hard-to-find
factory films and supplies to Minographers worldwide.
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Bluefire
products
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Film that can be enlarged beyond the
resolution limits of your lens without losing detail to grain. Plus
developers that are optimized for this extraordinary film.
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Have you ever seen gorilla
whiskers up close?
Click the photo.
We recommend Blue
Moon in Portland, Oregon, as an excellent processor of Bluefire
film, or you can easily develop it at home.
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Bluefire™
Police
is a virtually grainless medium-speed black and white film,
that can be enlarged to extremes without losing image detail to
grain.
It creates images of biting clarity™,
quite unlike what you get from any other black and white film. Why not
check it out?
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Flash cubes and flash bulbs
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cubes and flash bulbs
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AG1 and AB1B "peanut"
bulbs, M2B bulbs, flash cubes and Magicubes. We also have a selection of
large, screw-base flash bulbs for press cameras. These products have not
been manufactured for many years, so supplies are limited and when
they're gone, they're gone. You should stock up now.
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Film processing
services
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Lab Services
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Bluefire Laboratories
provides expert image recovery
services, specializing in developing and printing outdated, damaged, and
non-standard films, including those requiring obsolete chemistries.
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Darkroom equipment
and chemistry
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| Darkroom
As
traditional camera stores move inexorably to digital, fewer and fewer
are able to stock equipment and supplies for processing film in home
darkrooms. That's why we're here — to supply you with hard-to-find
photo goods.
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With this tank, you can process roll film at home, color or black and
white, including 35mm, 126, 120, 620, and 127. Safe for use with all films, including
infrared, and all photographic processing chemicals.
Be sure to check out our Amazon Store, where
we link you to tanks, graduates, and other equipment shipped to you by
Amazon's e-commerce partners
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Featuring
Bluefire™ developers:
Bluefire HR for pictorial images
with high-contrast films; Bluefire Micro for high-contrast
images with most films.
Plus the world's most popular developer (known as "76")
in convenient liquid concentrate, and 777, the "Life
Magazine" developer, a favorite of working photojournalists during
the Golden Age of black and white photojournalism.
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Photo-related
books
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(Internet access is required to view
book offers from Amazon.)
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In conjunction
with Amazon.com, we're proud to present a selection of books that
will be of interest to many photographers. Whether you're switching to
digital, sticking with film, or taking the best from both, there's a book here that will help make
you a better, more effective photographer. |
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Free
information downloads
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You'll need
Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view and print these documents.
Click the button to download the latest
version from Adobe's web site.
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Our collection
of instruction sheets is slowly growing.
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Slide
mounts for unusual film sizes and 35mm
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Slide mounts
for protecting (or projecting) your best 35mm, Minox and 16mm submini images,
and for mounting 127 "Superslides." |
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