photo maven alert (RIP Ferrante Dega)

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

not really Davis Sq and maybe old news but maybe save someone (like me...) a few trips.

I went looking for film cleaner today. Calumet didn't have any (and their "chemical" photo stock is basically what would fit on a normal sized kitchen table. i.e. slim). I tried to go by SBI sales... and they are not in that horrid complex any longer. I went by Ferrante Dega and YIKES they are gone!! They were a fixture in Harvard Sq (and the smell of fixer as you walked by was one of my OPS waypoints (Olfactory Positioning System...;-) Tried the Coop too - no luck. Later someone told me that SBI had merged with Hunt's Photo (?) and is in the building where the x-Tower records is/was. Haven't checked that out yet. Someone also told me about "Zef's Photo" someplace out on the Belmont line - might try that tomorrow.

I guess the days of film are seriously passing/passed- but I still have a fondness for chemically derived images.

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[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

the new SBI (now hunts) in Harvard is much smaller, and I think the chemicals were the ones to take the biggest hit.

There is a bigger hunt's in Kenmore now (though not huge) and also across the street is BU Photo or some such thing, which I believe has decent chemicals.

If all that fails, BHPhoto.com is your best friend. They have everything.

I'd comment on the loss of chemicals, but I havent used a darkroom in almost 3 years, and sold all my film cameras (sorry) :)