Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can't get Kodachrome in Hamilton, Canada (pop. 300,000). I'm within spitting distance of Rochester but whenever I've asked for it, the stock response is: "They don't make it anymore. You should buy this Velvia." As if!! Even when I travel to Manhattan I bring my film along. Why should I waste my travel (meaning holiday) time looking for a film store that stocks more than Kodak gold? Jonathan Lee - -----Original Message----- From: Doug Richardson [mailto:doug@meditor.demon.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 5:33 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Buying film locally "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> wrote: >I've never understood this reluctance to buy film locally... Here in Paris you can get any kind of film you want. But much through I love Paris - surely the world's most civilised city - on occasions I travel to other countries where the cuisine, wine, and range of film are much more limited.Outside of capital cities, the range of film sold by camera stores can shrink dramatically to a handful of popular brands - virtually all colour negative.. In Brugge last month I could find only one shop (after a long search) which sold Kodachrome. In Crete two years ago, I found that no-one in the second-largest city sold Kodachrome. I remember discovering several decades ago (the hard way) that Stupendouschrome sold in the UK had quite a different colour balance to Stupendouschrome sold in its country of origin.(Let's spare the blushes of the film company concerned, which has long since vanished into the pages of history. When I bought my first Leica, you could get colour film from Kodak, Ilford, Agfa, Gaevret, Perutz, Ferrania, Ansco... and probably others I can't remember.) Doug Richardson (Thus spake the Ancient Photographer, a Leica in his hand)