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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Re: thanks

[matthew miller (from livejournal.com)]

Although, I'm not so certain about the knowledge-to-salesdrive ratio of the employees at Campus Camera. I went there looking for a bounce/swivel flash for my Olympus camera, and they tried really hard to sell me a (Vivitar? Sunpack?) I don't remember now) model which I knew (having been researching already) wouldn't work in TTL mode. Anyway, it wasn't so much that they didn't know some specific random fact, but that I had to insist that no, that wouldn't be fine, thanks, and kind of back out of the store.