RE: [Leica] Buying film locally

["Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>]

Johnathan:

Have you trie Shoppers Drug Mart for Kodachrome?  I see it in most of thier
stores.  Perhaps London Drugs have it as well.

Regards,

Robert

At 05:13 PM 10/6/99 -0400, Lee, Jonathan wrote:
>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!!
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>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? 
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>Jonathan Lee
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>-----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
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>"Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> wrote:
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>>I've never understood this reluctance to buy film locally... Here in
>Paris you can get any kind of film you want.
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>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..
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>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.
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>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)
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