The Frugal Photographer Catalog

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126 Instamatic film

For use in any "Instamatic" format camera (but not the 110 Pocket Instamatic) — and a wonderful way to make a 24-exposure pinhole camera.

We recommend Blue Moon in Portland, Oregon, for developing and printing this film.

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.

127 roll film

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.

Bluefire Murano 160
an excellent ISO 160 color print film in 127 size, currently manufactured in Canada.

We recommend Blue Moon in Portland, Oregon, for developing and printing this film, or you can easily develop it at home.

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.

110 Pocket Instamatic film and micro-cameras

For use in any "Pocket Instamatic" camera.

We recommend Blue Moon in Portland, Oregon, for developing and printing this 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. Now is the time for experimenters and enthusiasts to stock up.

Bluefire® Police as 35mm personal microfilm

A dream come true for genealogists, scientists, historians, and researchers of all kinds.
When processed in microfilm chemistry, such as Bluefire Micro, this film gives hard document-copy images.

We recommend Blue Moon in Portland, Oregon, for developing and printing this film, or you can easily develop it at home.

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.

Bluefire® Police as 35mm pictorial film for extreme enlargements

Have you ever seen gorilla whiskers up close?
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We recommend Blue Moon in Portland, Oregon, as an excellent pictorial processor of Bluefire film, or you can easily develop it at home.

Bluefire® Police is a virtually grainless medium-speed black and white 35mm camera 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?

Bluefire® Police as a 35mm high-contrast technical film

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Bluefire Police was the masking film for this Southern University of Denmark project that investigated microfabrication of lines between 4 and 100 microns. It is also being used regularly to record DNA analyses.
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Bluefire® Police has so little grain that, when exposed in a conventional 35mm camera and processed in Bluefire Micro and similar high-contrast developers, it is useful for photolithographic masking in microfabrication. It costs far less in time and money than conventional chromium masks.

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Conventional 35mm film

Be sure to also check out our Amazon Store, where we link you to an extensive selection of name-brand 35mm films.

We recommend Blue Moon in Portland, Oregon, for developing and printing this film, or you can easily develop it at home.

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).

120 roll film

Be sure to check out our Amazon Store, where we link you to an extensive selection of name-brand 120 films.

We recommend Blue Moon in Portland, Oregon, for developing and printing this film, or you can easily develop it at home.

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).

Sheet film

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.

Ilford HP5 Plus - Black & white print film - 5 x 7" - ISO 400 - 25 sheets

Fujifilm Fujichrome Velvia RVP 100F Color Slide Film ISO 100, 4 x 5", 10 Sheets, Transparency

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.

Minox film and supplies

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.

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.

Flash cubes and flash bulbs

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.

Darkroom equipment and chemistry

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.

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

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.

Photo-related books

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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.

Free information downloads

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Our collection of instruction sheets is slowly growing.

Slide mounts for unusual film sizes and 35mm

Slide mounts for protecting (or projecting) your best 35mm, Minox and 16mm submini images, and for mounting 127 "Superslides."