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Click here
to see what Donge's whiskers look like from 60 feet away when
photographed with high-resolution Bluefire Police 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 examples of Bluefire Police used as a photolithographic mask for
micromachining. Grain-free resolution of 10-micron images.
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
2-roll
trial pack with Bluefire HR pictorial developer
Item: BPP2
Buy two or three trial packs and save.
A trial pack contains two rolls of Bluefire
Police film with 30 ml of Bluefire HR developer concentrate.
Bluefire Police is an excellent replacement for 35mm Kodak Technical
Pan. It is now in regular use in research laboratories and in
industry in North America and Europe for nanoscale masking, microscopy,
and DNA analysis.
Click here
for an explanation of what "high resolution" means.
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.
Shanghai GP3 — 120 b/w film, priced appropriately for
students and experimenters. An excellent choice for pinhole cameras. Widely used as a Holga/Lomo film due to its
low cost but may be unsuitable for art photographers who are making
enlarged prints.
product: 120-GP3
Use this Add To Cart button to buy one
or more
single rolls.
 per
roll
Excellent processing
for this film is available from 120PROCESSING.COM.
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.
A most amazing site: the
American Museum of Photography
Polaroid
fans, click here.
This is probably the best value in a good-quality, carry-anywhere digital camera.
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All of the 110 in the world is now past its
"process before" date. We test each new batch we receive for deterioration,
and try to describe its condition accurately. Refrigerate or freeze your
film on receipt and it will last many
more years.
We have several interesting 110 color print films in stock,
from $3.29 per roll, depending on condition and number of exposures.
Click here to go to the 110 catalog page
This is probably our best
110 film: Agfa-made private label 110-24, ISO
200, "York" or "Quality" brand.
Colors are generally good.
Item:
110-24-AGFA
per roll. 24 exposures per roll
(3-roll minimum purchase, please)
Price breaks at 12 and 100 rolls
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, or make contact prints from full-size negatives (you can
easily print a negative of an image on clear plastic using an inkjet
printer). Process in safelight conditions with
any standard paper developer (or our coffee
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).
Item: RO-LLE/8
 per 8-oz bottle
Use this Add To Cart button to buy:
(8 oz. covers about 12 square feet)
To scan or not to scan...
The switch
from darkroom printing to electronic printing is now almost (but not quite!) complete.
Darkroom equipment
is no longer being made. Photography
teachers have almost all turned exclusively to digital technologies.
"Electronic printing" involves scanning your negative or slide on a dedicated film scanner, and then printing on
an inkjet printer.
Good inkjet printers are readily available, but film scanners are not. We recommend the pro-quality Nikon scanners for their superior software, excellent workflow, and quality
optics. But they're expensive! There are now less expensive alternatives that are a very good choice for home use.
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
much 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.
You can relatively easily make an adapter that lets you scan slides
and negatives on a flatbed scanner. Here
is one of many "how-to" pages.
Buying an inexpensive scanner may be the right move.
It's important to read Amazon's customer reviews of these inexpensive scanners, so you can be sure you know what you're getting. While not of professional
standard like the Nikons, they are nevertheless highly regarded for home
use, and give very good quality results.
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Minox
film
We're proud to be
an authorized Minox dealer. We keep large stocks of Minox films and ship to you directly from our
freezer.
Genuine
Minox film and supplies, imported from
Germany. Click
here. How good is this ultra-tiny film? Click here
to see.
These Minox MX cameras are
excellent, well-made little machines with superb lenses.
Thousands of photographers bought theirs for $300. Clearout prices like
these are an amazing opportunity. Note: every so often they appear to now be
completely sold out...try again in a week or so.
Holgagraphy has nothing to do with holograms: it's the art form formerly known as Lomography
(the art and craft of making compelling photos
with crappy cameras). It's a serious art form and also a lot of fun.
AViVA PF1
New! a true 35mm SLR with
Holga/Lomo-style
lens
manufactured by Beijing Camera Factory's "Great Wall"
division. This is the same camera offered elsewhere as the "Hipstermatic ."
Check out the fabulous Holga/Lomo-style photos creative photographers are getting with
this intriguing, inexpensive 35mm SLR:
PF1 Flickr Group
Free Shipping to US and Canada! Includes full one-year warranty
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Use any 35mm
film.
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Exposure control is automatic or manual.
For ISO 100, 200, or 400 film,
LED over-and under-exposure indicators
are visible in the viewfinder. Simply turn the aperture ring until the green LED
lights up and correct exposure is assured.
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Turn the meter
off (or ignore it) for full manual exposure control.
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True SLR
through-the-lens viewing so you know exactly what you are photographing
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Built-in flash
powered by two AA batteries (batteries included). Guide no. 58 with ISO 400 film.
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Manual focus 3
ft to infinity
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40mm semi-wide
angle lens (non-interchangeable) is perfect for intimate portraiture, small
groups, street photography.
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f/ stops from
f/2.8 to f/16 for shooting in just about any light conditions.
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Accepts standard 49mm lens accessories:
filters, polarizing filters, close-up adapters, wide-angle and telephoto
auxiliary adapters, etc. All effects are visible through the lens.
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One shutter speed and non-adjustable
leaf shutter. You control exposure with the aperture ring.
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Includes case
and neck strap.
Item:
AVIVAkit
59.95 each
(A personal note: I have been
experimenting with this camera and will share my experiences as I go
along.
First impressions: Yes, it works,
and it works well at its intended purpose. Good flash, good exposure
control, excellent creative control. It's attractive and
well-finished.
The downside?...well, here is one
example: the battery compartment is so tight I have to use the tip of a
pocket-knife to pry the batteries out. Another — in the one I use, the
frame-counter is jumpy and I never know how accurate it is.
None of this stops me from using
and greatly enjoying it. Stay tuned.
Shoot our Promax 35mm black and white films in
your AViVA SLR and develop them at home in instant
coffee and vitamin C. Then scan on your flatbed scanner.
35-100LAU
ISO 100,
per roll:
(3-roll minimum)
Expose at ISO 100. Process in D76 1:1 for
nine to eleven minutes
35-400LAU
ISO 400,
per roll: 
(3-roll minimum)
Expose at ISO 400, and process in D76 1:1 for
ten to twelve minutes
If you plan to develop these films in instant
coffee and vitamin C, don't use the ISO 100 film. Use ISO 400 instead, but
expose it at ISO 100. The coffee/C developer robs your film of speed.
Need scanning and photo-manipulation software? Check out this FREE
easy-to-use Photoshop
workalike that we use all the time.
Shoot Shanghai GP-3 120 film
in your Holga, and develop it at home in instant
coffee and vitamin C. Then scan it on your flatbed scanner.
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For the ultimate in Holga-Lomo style expressive photography, pit yourself
against this: the famous Ansco 50, a re-useable plastic minicamera, including a roll of outdated
Fuji 110 24-exposure, ISO 200 color print film.
Item: 110-MINIANSCO
each
Add several rolls
of our "Greenscale" long-outdated Konica 110. It has serious
color distortions and just begs to be worked over in PhotoShop (or this
free Photoshop
workalike ).
Item:
110-KON
per roll. 24 exposures per roll
(3-roll minimum purchase, please)
Introducing
The Holga Starter Set
Introducing
The Holga Fisheye Camera
Introducing "Holgawood," the camera formerly known as
Holga.
The original Holga, the one that started it all.
Convert your 120 Holga to 35mm film.
These filters add new creative possibilities.
This film is factory-wound for exposure through the back.
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