Re: Safelights and paper developer?

On 21 août, 08:39, g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote:
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Freestyle, for example ships only FedEX and therefore a package of 8x10
paper would cost $100 to ship.

At B&H, UPS shipment is cheaper than USPS and service is much better
(tracking #, fast delivery, etc ...).
Multigrade, fiber papers are here:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/3results/controller/home?O=search&A=search&Q=&ci=3905&sb=bs%2Cupper%28ds%29&sq=asc

I ordered once a bunch of electron tubes from New-York through USPS.
I received them with "some" delay as they went through South Africa
before arriving in Europe.
I suppose someone mixed Swaziland and Switzerland, phonetically close
but just on two different continents ...

I also have two Phillips safe light bulbs, which are like regular
red light bulbs, but coated with a safelight filter. One I bought,
which cost as much as the small safelights and the other was a gift.

They work fine, I use some of them together with their amber
counterparts.
But, as usual, test your safelight to be sure it is safe ...

I'm in the desert. :-) Like L.A., you might not believe it if you
see it, but water is at a premium here. I am using some sort of
wash aid, but Kodak chemicals were hard to find here and are probably
gone.

As washaid, I just use a plain 2% sodium sulfite solution I through at
the end of the session.
This is a very cheap chemical.
Or you may go the formula Richard gave some times ago which is more or
less similar to Kodak's one.

Thanks for everything, I'll report back. I hope I can find paper,
I've already bought out local supplies of bulk 35mm film, plastic
reloadable casettes, HC-110 and Rodinal.

When asked if more (developer) was on the way, a local store said yes.
which I wonder because the Rodinal was the old Agfa version. Another
store in Tel Aviv danced around the issue, but gave the impression I got
the last of their chemicals. The HC-110 I bought from them had gone bad with
age (something I thought almost impossible for a factory sealed bottle).

Buy also your chemicals from one of the US large distributors but,
because of air shipments regulations, you're usually limited to dry
chemicals (Dektol, Xtol, etc ...).
In your situation, I would try to find a local supplier of raw
chemicals and mix my own, it may be easier.


Geoff.

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