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Hey all, After shooting 35mm for years I decided to take the plunge into developing my own film earlier this and all's been well for the most part. I started with the Unicolor 1L kit until the suppliers I was using decided to stop shipping to Hawai`i. While I can still find a couple places online that sell this kit the product price and shipping combination is just way too high. It's literally cheaper to drop my stuff off at one of our few remaining labs--too expensive for the volume I like to shoot. I can get the Cinestill powder kit but have been unhappy with the results I've been getting from it. I'm thinking I'm gonna give up on powder kits all together and shoot for better quality developing anyway but am faced with a large hurdle: I can't find anywhere online--though I'm fairly new and don't know of everywhere selling chemistry--that'll ship anything to me for a decent price if at all. My question is this: can anyone tell me of anywhere online that doesn't care where the customer lives? Particularly Hawai`i. ORM-D stuff sold in the lower 48 seems to pretty much be off limits to anywhere outside of the lower 48 and I feel like I'm at a loss. I've been thinking options (eBay and whatnot) but wanted to reach out to get some insight before pulling the trigger on anything. This kit https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fuji-Hunt-...891186&hash=item3b27efddc2:g:6OMAAOSwMhVcPbzJ seems to be of good value but it's coming from Europe and I'm not sure if I should be worried about customs or anything or if it'll be turned away at a regional facility (a lot things go to the US west coast before reaching HI regardless of where it's coming from). Of course, if anyone here is from Hawai`i and knows of a local shop I can buy from that would be ideal, but I don't know of any.
Thanks for reading the wall of text,
Bill
Hey all, After shooting 35mm for years I decided to take the plunge into developing my own film earlier this and all's been well for the most part. I started with the Unicolor 1L kit until the suppliers I was using decided to stop shipping to Hawai`i. While I can still find a couple places online that sell this kit the product price and shipping combination is just way too high. It's literally cheaper to drop my stuff off at one of our few remaining labs--too expensive for the volume I like to shoot. I can get the Cinestill powder kit but have been unhappy with the results I've been getting from it. I'm thinking I'm gonna give up on powder kits all together and shoot for better quality developing anyway but am faced with a large hurdle: I can't find anywhere online--though I'm fairly new and don't know of everywhere selling chemistry--that'll ship anything to me for a decent price if at all. My question is this: can anyone tell me of anywhere online that doesn't care where the customer lives? Particularly Hawai`i. ORM-D stuff sold in the lower 48 seems to pretty much be off limits to anywhere outside of the lower 48 and I feel like I'm at a loss. I've been thinking options (eBay and whatnot) but wanted to reach out to get some insight before pulling the trigger on anything. This kit https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fuji-Hunt-...891186&hash=item3b27efddc2:g:6OMAAOSwMhVcPbzJ seems to be of good value but it's coming from Europe and I'm not sure if I should be worried about customs or anything or if it'll be turned away at a regional facility (a lot things go to the US west coast before reaching HI regardless of where it's coming from). Of course, if anyone here is from Hawai`i and knows of a local shop I can buy from that would be ideal, but I don't know of any.
Thanks for reading the wall of text,
Bill