Current Source for Kodak RA 4 Chemicals?

Andre Noble · Feb 26, 2015

Hello, I used to reliably obtain Kodak RA 4 chemical here in Los Angeles from Calumet up until their closure a year ago. Adorama lists Kodak RA 4 listed as "Out of Stock" - even if i stock, not sure if they ship. Is there a source in Los Angeles (or nationally with shipping) to obtain Kodak RA 4 chemicals circa Feb 2015?

wildbill · Feb 26, 2015

order from Samy's if they don't already have what you need.

Photo Engineer · Feb 26, 2015

Trebla chemicals in Rochester NY.

DREW WILEY · Feb 26, 2015

Freestyle in LA. They also have an identical private-labeled Arista RA-4 kit. Just make sure you are comparing apples to apples. They have
a kit fully interchangeable with Kodak RA/RT ingredients. Do not confuse this with "room temp mono" stuff, which I've never had good luck
with.

lhalcong · Feb 26, 2015

Southpointphoto.com although they whole sale to stores in larger quantities , not retail. But that's where I bought mine. two years later still going strong.

amellice · Feb 26, 2015

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they'll ship, in fact this is funny they only ship this because it comes from their warehouse. I once went to the store with hope to find them and not wait for shipping cause it was Friday and I like to print on weekends, and the guy told me it's not in store, on my way out I decided to ask another salesman (don't know why I did that) and boom there was only 1 in store by mistake I guess and I happily bought it and printed on that weekend

wildbill · Feb 26, 2015

DREW WILEY said:
Freestyle in LA. They also have an identical private-labeled Arista RA-4 kit. Just make sure you are comparing apples to apples. They have
a kit fully interchangeable with Kodak RA/RT ingredients. Do not confuse this with "room temp mono" stuff, which I've never had good luck
with.

Freestyle doesn't sell kodak color chemicals. At least I haven't seen them in the store or online in the last 15yrs. They do sell their 4L kit for $45

DREW WILEY · Feb 26, 2015

They might have them now, or maybe I'm confusing this with the camera store right down the street, which has official Kodak RA/RT back
in stock. Nice to have a new owner enthusiastic about darkrooms! If they can readily get this kind of product in small volume, so should any camera store with a Kodak account. But the Arista kits from Freestyle are chemically identical. Even the bottle quantities and mixing proportions are identical to Kodak RA/RT. That's something I've personally tested, quite carefully.

alanrockwood · Feb 26, 2015

Photo Engineer said:
Trebla chemicals in Rochester NY.

Is Trebla still available?

Photo Engineer · Feb 26, 2015

AFAIK. They are former EK engineers.

PE

bvy · Feb 26, 2015

Unique Photo sells and ships them. I had trouble with expired stock before though. But that's been a while.
https://www.uniquephoto.com

Sirius Glass · Feb 27, 2015

wildbill said:
order from Samy's if they don't already have what you need.

Samys in Culver City on Sepulveda had the paper and the RA-4 chemicals when I bought there last month.

Andre Noble · Mar 1, 2015

wildbill said:
order from Samy's if they don't already have what you need.

Tried Samy's, they can not/will not order it for you anymore according to manager.

Sirius Glass · Mar 1, 2015

I just ordered and received the RA-4 chemicals at the Samys of Sepulveda in Culver City. There is always FreeStyle.

DanielStone · Mar 1, 2015

Andre,
talk with the staff at the Pasadena store *film counter* (626) 796-3300
***best if you have exact Kodak item #s***
the Hollywood staff are usually "too busy" to go hunting for things. Talk with the Pasadena staff, they're usually quite helpful with odd darkroom stuff requests.

-Dan

Sirius Glass · Mar 2, 2015

DanielStone said:
***best if you have exact Kodak item #s***

+1,000

alanrockwood · Apr 5, 2015

Repeating a question, are Trebla chemicals still available?

MattKing · Apr 5, 2015

alanrockwood said:
Repeating a question, are Trebla chemicals still available?

I don't know, but this might get you an answer: http://204.8.121.79/contactus.asp

alanrockwood · Apr 5, 2015

MattKing said:
I don't know, but this might get you an answer: http://204.8.121.79/contactus.asp

Email address from the link above (sales@cpacimaging.com) doesn't work.

Photo Engineer · Apr 5, 2015

They have several sites and a sales outlet in Rochester.

Try this: http://www.minilab.com/productdetail.asp_Q_catID_E_83_A_subCatID_E_74_A_productID_E_76_A_skuID_E_677

Andre Noble · Apr 14, 2015

I was able to buy really fresh RA4 Developer, shipped, from Adorrama. The was like a month wait for it to arrive though, but the chems looked really clean. I just need to make time to set up my new 16x20 nova slot processor.

Rolfe Tessem · Apr 15, 2015

I think you need the last three items on this page.

http://pdisupply.com/productSub.cfm...&StatusID=0&Sort=&pageRecords=30#.VS7KhBPF8sg

Rolfe

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