In a world without Tri-X...

[StoneNYC]

I only know of one location in Shanghai, a city of 24 million people that has film. So I have to stock up real well when I go there as it is many miles from my house. I sure miss the days of easy film access.

I just checked B&H... you could buy this....

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/29165-USA/Kodak_1067214_TX_35mm_100_Roll.html

and it costs $50 for 3-5 day shipping to china...

Yes that's a lot for shipping, but buy a few can's of it, or stock up with that and PanF+ or whatever else you use that comes in bulk, and have it shipped, get a years worth of film, it will cost you more than the travel to that city and probably cheaper than buying from there anyway. Just a suggestion.

 

[StoneNYC]

Wow, Matt. If you've got all THAT available above the big fat white line, why do you even bother with Glazer's down here? Maybe I should be crossing in the other direction just for that darkroom supply section.

:confused:

Ken

Seriously it's like Nirvana... (and Ken would probably know about Nirvana... being near Seattle and all... hehe).

 

[MattKing]

WOW Matt ... that's awesome... it's like dream land!!! My local lab (the only true camera store in CT now that even remotely stocks and sells film, has cut their shelf from the whole thing filled with reels and developer for the college kids, to just 4 squares in the shelf... and the haven't bought new film lately either, I can see it dwindling down... I kind of like the AGFA sign above the cooler, wish I could snag it!

As far as non-lab film places...

That shot I linked to is of Beau Photo. They aren't a lab, it's just that they've recently started taking in photofinishing orders for one of the pro-labs in town.

They are a professional photo supply retailer with a fairly large pro rental program.

They also service a lot of the educational institutions - including Emily Carr, which is an art college with a photography program.

They used to be one of the two major album suppliers to the pro wedding market. They still sell lots of that sort of stuff.

They bring in materials from Photographers' Formulary as well as some of the Freestyle house brand stuff.

It is often significantly more expensive to buy from them than to import stuff from the New York megastores, but that is because they pay a lot for their stock and they sell with a reasonable markup.

I have just one complaint - they aren't open weekends and the only evening they are open is Thursdays until 7 pm.

 

[MattKing]

Wow, Matt. If you've got all THAT available above the big fat white line, why do you even bother with Glazer's down here? Maybe I should be crossing in the other direction just for that darkroom supply section.

:confused:

Ken

Hi Ken:

Glazer's has more selection and, as it sources from US distributors, it can offer lower prices on quite a few things.

The photo linked to does a wonderfully artistic job of showing most of the analogue/film inventory at its best. There is actually another moderately sized section not shown, where they have their (predominantly Ilford) photographic paper.

But Beau is a really good source, with really good people.

I just wish they were open on weekends and more evenings, because their location is near downtown Vancouver, and I'm rarely their during business hours.

I've been trying to persuade them to advertise on APUG - I wonder if this will help?

 

[StoneNYC]

That shot I linked to is of Beau Photo. They aren't a lab, it's just that they've recently started taking in photofinishing orders for one of the pro-labs in town.

They are a professional photo supply retailer with a fairly large pro rental program.

They also service a lot of the educational institutions - including Emily Carr, which is an art college with a photography program.

They used to be one of the two major album suppliers to the pro wedding market. They still sell lots of that sort of stuff.

They bring in materials from Photographers' Formulary as well as some of the Freestyle house brand stuff.

It is often significantly more expensive to buy from them than to import stuff from the New York megastores, but that is because they pay a lot for their stock and they sell with a reasonable markup.

I have just one complaint - they aren't open weekends and the only evening they are open is Thursdays until 7 pm.

That's the same as my local photo store... they ARE a lab, but most of their actual money making is in selling new shiny digital cameras to unsuspecting soccer moms...

 

[jerrybro]

Local supplier here (the agfa labelling on the cooler needs updating):

I haven't shelves that well stocked in ages. I've been buying everything online for years.

 

[Xmas]

I haven't shelves that well stocked in ages. I've been buying everything online for years.

Just checked my local pharmacy and they still have HP5, XP2 & BW400CN on buy one get a second (cheaper) half price so I bought 2xHP5. They had lots of C41 colour as well.

 

[rubyfalls]

Jeebus - I'm so jealous of you all. My local pharmacy offers a stunning selection of disposable cameras and memory cards in their still-demarcated "Film" area. And the photo dude said that they couldn't develop my ilford xp2, because it was black and white. Even though I explained that it was C41. So...yeah.

But on the plus side, I am surrounded by lovely mountains.


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[Roger Cole]

I'd take the lovely surroundings any day. I can order film easily off the Internet, and have it delivered to my door in two days for less money than most places sell locally. Heck, the two days is probably quicker than I could find time to run by and buy it locally. But you can't just order up some lovely mountains via the Internet.

 

[Truzi]

Maybe I'm not old enough, but I do not remember any non-C-41 B&W film at pharmacies here in the U.S. I do remember a wide variety of color film before digital, but anything B&W (other than C-41 b&w) seemed only to be at camera shops.

 

[Roger Cole]

Nah, probably just not old enough. I used to buy Tri-X and Plus-X at department stored and pharmacies in the 70s.


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[Thomas Bertilsson]

About ten years ago I remember seeing Tri-X at the local drugstore. There must have been three lonely packages that sat there forever and a day until they stopped selling film. I was shooting Agfa, so didn't purchase Tri-X.

 

[winger]

I was still seeing Tri-X in CVS near me in western PA a couple of years ago. I might even have bought a box or two just to let them know someone still used it. I don't shoot that much 35mm anymore and just buy it online when I buy my MF and LF stuff. I haven't lived near a "real" photo store since leaving MA in 2007, though. Back there and then, I could go into Newtonville Photo and get whatever I needed (any size + paper and chemistry).

 

[RattyMouse]

Nah, probably just not old enough. I used to buy Tri-X and Plus-X at department stored and pharmacies in the 70s.


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Yep. I used to be able to buy Tri-X and Plus-X at virtually any store that had film. That was a long time ago.

 

[StoneNYC]

As I mentioned I still see Tri-X at CVS/Walgreen/Rite Aide, just gotta go to the ghetto and you'll find some

And Ruby, did he finally get it? Were you able to at least convince him to take a roll to try? I would buy one just to make him do it

 

[MattKing]

In the 1970s and 1980s, I used to sell Tri-X and Plus-X at a department store.

Along with Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Kodacolour, 3M slide film, Polaroid SX70 and other films, house brand films .....

No Fuji though.

 

[Xmas]

Maybe I'm not old enough, but I do not remember any non-C-41 B&W film at pharmacies here in the U.S. I do remember a wide variety of color film before digital, but anything B&W (other than C-41 b&w) seemed only to be at camera shops.

wipper 'snapper' I can recall pharmacies with only verichrome pan roll film

 

[Truzi]

LOL. Perhaps it is because I live in the suburbs. The only B&W I've seen at a pharmacy or dime-store was c-41 stuff, and this has been since the early 90s. For regular B&W I had to hit the pro-shops.

 

[Roger Cole]

When I bought it in department stores that was in a small town, population 12k. The next over, biggest city in the area, was about 40k people then. The nearest city of 100k was 100 miles away. Rural and small town America, definitely NOT urban or ghetto.

Now granted, the nearest places to get darkroom stuff were about 35 miles away and selection was limited even then compared to getting it from New York (via telephone in those days.)

 

[Xmas]

Hi Truzi
By 1950 we still had sugar rationing and only verichrome pan 127, 120 & 620 in end of street pharmacy.
Noel

 

[David Brown]

I was still seeing Tri-X in CVS near me in western PA a couple of years ago.

I honestly haven't looked in the last few months, but a year ago I purposely bought TriX at a local CVS just to demonstrate to a film workshop I was giving that it could still be done.

I'll have to check.

Now, getting it developed there is a whole 'nother thing ...

 

[cmacd123]

In the 1970s and 1980s, I used to sell Tri-X and Plus-X at a department store.
Along with Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Kodacolour, 3M slide film, Polaroid SX70 and other films, house brand films .....
No Fuji though.

Yes, I did a stint in department Store Camera land myself. We HAD Fujicolour and fujichrome, even some GAF colour. (The only C-22 size 110 film I have ever seen.) Also AGFA CNS. The Lab we dealt with was the official lab for that non-standard process.

For a while the buyer had a deal to get grey market Kodak Limited Film from the UK as it was cheaper than the film from Kodak Canada. That suddenly stopped after a visit from the Kodak Canada rep. I only bought a few rolls of the UK stuff but they were still re-loadable when the Canadian and US ones were crimped.

Funny thing was we could send a roll of slide film (AnscoChrome, or E6 ) out before the pickup at 4 Pm and it would be returned by the 4 pm Pickup the next day. (lab sent someone to swap the pickup bag every day)

Of course working with Cameras all doy the last thing I wanted to do on my day off was to even think about taking pictures.

 

[rubyfalls]

As I mentioned I still see Tri-X at CVS/Walgreen/Rite Aide, just gotta go to the ghetto and you'll find some

And Ruby, did he finally get it? Were you able to at least convince him to take a roll to try? I would buy one just to make him do it

No - I'm just holding on to it until I have a pile of c41 120 to send out to the Darkroom. I don't shoot colour very often, but when i do, i send it out to those good souls. Not much more expensive than a Walgreen's and they will pull or push as needed.


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[ssloansjca]

I am ordering Ilford as often as I can. They are the ones who are still committed to black and white so I want to support them any way I can.

 

[SchwinnParamount]

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I get away with filling most of the freezer because it's at work, and we don't need the freezer for much at work. Maybe some ice for iced coffee or Jim Beam once in a while and some BBQ leftovers. Keeping the freezer and fridge full is more efficient than empty.

What the heck? You're wasting valuable freezer space with food?