The body is small, if not exactly light (with standard lens it comes in at 615g). This is the 3rd incarnation of the Pen half-frame SLRs, featuring the bright viewfinder of the F, but with single stroke advance and improved shutter of the FT. My search for a camera that could give me the control and involvement I crave, yet fit in the spare space I have has brought me to the Olympus Pen FV. The Dean Forest Railway carriages we travelled in. My beloved OM1-N is sleek, but full frame lenses, even the Zuikos, are not. Holiday travel on trains and buses with our k9 companion in tow, forces us to pack light. Few of us would include size and weight in such a list. The total mental and physical involvement in producing that final physical asset, the negative, and maybe even a print. The disconnect from the world digital technology. Don't expect a b&h price when you are ordering only a small amount, but once again, if you can pickup, there are no other fees apart from sales taxes.For many of us film photography comes with many advantages. In my expereince buying from them a few times they don't charge any up front hazmat or courier charges for pickup, although there are such fees buried in the price they qoute you. The up side is that Unisource seem to have a bunch of local depots in various Canadian cities, and you can order and wait a day or tow and then go and pick up from thier depot. They carry an extensive list of kodak chems figuring out the catalog number you want can be tricky and cross referencing the kodak # buried in thier catatlog # is usually required. I know it is a little wierd from the usual retail experience. Then they will quote you the price of what you are interested in. They will sell to end users once you give them your credit card and they establish an account in thier computer. They are a wholesaler- mostly of office supplies, but with a printing and photolab arm via acquisitions. Not only, for a new user anyway, is it hard to find the chemistry, but with both E-6 and C-41 processes, many companies will not ship, and require in-store purchases, or if they ship, the costs are expensive.Ĭould I have gotten into this film processing affair, at a worse time, at least what seems to be for chemical availability?Īt my age, I my enthusiasm for ‘affairs’ is rapidly becoming rather limited…Īs to a Canadian source, consider the present owners of Mondrian Hall/Treck Hall - Unisource. Now, when I went to buy the chemicals for E-6 processing, I'm finding that kodak has discontinued their 5 liter, six bath chemicals, and I'm seeing people not happy with the three bath chemicals and various issues. I optimistically scrounged around for an expensive jobo expert drum, a tempering valve, plumbing, filters, and an electrical outlet. Just a few months ago, and after some fifty, or too many years of wanting and waiting a darkroom, I enthusiastically looked forward to purchasing a jobo atl 2300 and doing some b&w, c-41, and e-6 processing. Thank you, all, for taking the time to reply… So, that might be one route if you're in TO.īit by bit, because of this community, this seventy-something newbie, is becoming at least a little more knowledgeable about chemical sourcing. I was about to go the powdered-kit route as well, but I've managed to hook up with a fellow Winnipegger who has repurposed some Konica mini-lab chems for home use. Dev-only is $4-5 at most places I've checked. Assuming a capacity of 16 rolls x 36 exp (same listed capacity as the Unicolor kits), that's $4.04/36 exp. The kit is US$28.95 plus US$35.75 for shipping (via USPS) to me here in Winnipeg. Unfortunately, the Formulary-repackaged kit is not overly cost effective vs. The other places, it seems, don't want to be bothered with the cross-border hazmat paperwork (I don't blame them, it's not their primary business). I haven't been able to find another retailer who will ship liquids chems to Canada, and the local photo store who deals with Rollei film has indicated their distributor can't get the Rollei-branded Fuji chem kit, either. Actually, Photographer's Formulary *will* ship their repackaged Kodak Flexicolor 1L kit (repackaged because Kodak only sells larger quantities now) to Canada - I checked with them.
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