[rollei_list] Re: [rolleiusers] Wooden tripods

>
> Did they close out there darkroom corner - nook completely?
>
> B&H has a room bigger than the whole Pro Photo in Portland filled with
> darkroom stuff. 4 kinds of clothespins.
> Adorama and Calumet show no signs of weakening.
> All are selling a ton of high quality inkjet paper as well normally its
> the
> first thing you see when you walk in the door.
>
> I think that with everyone at their computers becoming Photoshop masters
> its
> getting more people into photography. Those people go out and get film
> cameras and darkroom stuff and print the old fashioned say. A small
> percentage of them. But a small percentage of A LOT!
>
> And we (perhaps you are already) from Photoshop outputting to 8x10 or
> bigger
> film and doing contact printing techniques like platinum.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
I think they are down to a 10 foot wall with 4 shelves but there is nearly
nothing available.  I buy virtually everything I need now from Freestyle
or B&H or photographers formulary.  PPS really switched to a more amateur
market even advertising on AM radio.

It would be great to be able to walk into Adorama or B&H though it is also
great to have all that stuff on line and have UPS bring it to you.

I have been enlarging negs from the Rollei for platinum printing.  Using
regular optical methods and slopping through the chemistry.  My use of the
Rollei is very much contingent on my being able to do that.  It is working
as well or better than the inkjet negs I have seen but still somewhat a
disappointment.  I am deciding to put the Rolleis away for awhile and go
back to the 8x10 for some quality perspective.  Kind of in a pointless
quandry over it.  I hate to put the rolleis down on a sour note.
DP
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