[LargeFormat] BW 4x5 processing
Craig Koshyk
largeformat@f32.net
Thu Jul 17 08:44:02 2003
> We used to have a wonderful store here in my hometown of London,
> Ontario,
We have a wonderful store here in Winnipeg. Photo Central (204)
774-4343 still has a fairly large selection of darkroom products
including Agfa papers (RC+FB) and films (4x5 on the shelves!). I can
buy two kinds of selenium toner (Kodak and Berg), Agfa Viradon, Kodak
and Ilford papers, tongs, trays, and even blotter books! In fact the
boys at the store have told me that there has been a slight increase in
darkroom sales in the last year or two. I like to think it is because
of the large number of students taking darkroom courses at my school ;)
The owner of Photo Central, Dick Toews, knows LF and is in fact
mounting a lens onto an old lensboard for me this week. He is also
quite a Leica-phile and knows knows Hasselblad/Mamiya/Pentax MF stuff
inside out.
Of course their digital section is growing but not, it seems, at the
expense of the darkroom section.
The situation in Toronto is, I must say, quite depressing. 8 Elm is the
only place I now visit when I am there. It has a great selection of
film and paper but boy I miss the old place....they actually used to
STOCK Lotus view cameras! They also had a bit of a gallery where I once
saw a stunning exhibition of platinum/palladium prints by Kerik Kouklis.