I always buy local if I can. The trouble is I can't get allot of what I want locally. Thank God for the internet, as it keeps options available. If I wanted to shoot Tmax and develop in D76 and print on Ilford all the time, I would have no problem, but my process is a little more eclectic than that. If it weren't for the internet, I would be stuck with whatever the market said works at the local retail level. That said, I'll say again, if I can get it local, I do.
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The nearest place where I can buy sheet/120 film is in Edinburgh, a 2 hr bus ride away (and even if I drove, parking would be a nightmare). When I'm in Normandy, Robert White in Poole is the nearest, so I pretty much have to use online/mailorder (I did buy lots of stuff from my local jessops when I lived in the Salisbury area)-it's a godsend out in the sticks!
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Anyone in Mass, Newtonville Camera still has a decent darkroom section. They have parking, too. I try to support them when I get up there because they're family owned. They're on Walnut St.
I grew up in Newton and paid many visits to Newtonville Camera during my high school years. They always had the best selection of gear and supplies for both photo and video in the Boston area...believe me, I checked! The fact that they've been able to keep providing basically the same great service and expertise through all of the turbulence in the photography industry over the years is something to be admired.
I just stopped in my local (to the office) shop today at lunchtime. They are printing up a few sample "holiday cards" so my better half can decide which ones she likes! So I do my best to patronize them for some things.
But, BTW, while there, I was looking at the display of UV lens filters. They were labeled as "digitial". What is digital about a UV lens filter? Is light "digital"? It's like the other display with the "digital" camera bags. If I put a film camera in a digital camera bag - does the bottom drop out?
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Same story here as in most posts. I'd love to support a local business if there was one. There never has been one. There's a good mini-lab which participates in the Ilford D2D programme but only stocks a few films behind the counter and the survival of the business doesn't depend on Ilford sales at all. Pity there isn't such a shop as even on grounds of sheer cost it makes sense to use it when you take into account the travel/postage cost of mail order unless the local shop were to have outrageous prices.
I just stopped in my local (to the office) shop today at lunchtime. They are printing up a few sample "holiday cards" so my better half can decide which ones she likes! So I do my best to patronize them for some things.
But, BTW, while there, I was looking at the display of UV lens filters. They were labeled as "digitial". What is digital about a UV lens filter? Is light "digital"? It's like the other display with the "digital" camera bags. If I put a film camera in a digital camera bag - does the bottom drop out?
Don't forget digital tripods, which I guess I guess should really be 'tridactyls' or something.
And if I understand the quantum theory at all, the question of whether light is digital does not have a yes or no answer. Is there a physicist in the house?
Freestyle and KEH are my local shops. They're right there in my house. Not only that, they're open 24 hours a day, almost always have what I want in stock at a good price, and have great customer service. I plan to buy lots of stuff from both of them, much to my wife's dismay.
Seriously, living here in the country there was one real photo store in a 20 mile radius and the owner retired earlier this year. I did do business with them, and certainly would have done more if I'd gotten into analog photography earlier. They were nice people, but like many small business owners they felt the years catching up to them and the world changing around them, while taxes kept getting higher and profits getting thinner. I was sorry to see them go, but online shops are just as deserving of my business as they were.
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And if I understand the quantum theory at all, the question of whether light is digital does not have a yes or no answer. Is there a physicist in the house?
While not a physicist, as I recall, incoherent light (what we get from the sun and light bulbs etc.) are waves and certainly analog. Coherent light (i.e. lasers) can be pulsed from the source and so perhaps could be considered "kind of like" digital.
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