Photo chemicals in Canada

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Tom: I used to prepare D-76 and D-72 from scratch, but I haven't done so in years. I'd like to experiment with various recipes, but photo stores in Montreal no longer sell chemicals. I know you prepare your developers from scratch, so I was hoping you could tell me where I could order photo chemicals in Canada.
 
I'm looking for raw chemicals, not the packaged developers. I know about Photographer"s Formulary, but I was hoping to find a place in Canada to minimize shipping costs.

As for Blazinol (Rodinal): I'd love to get my hands on an equivalent to Rodinal in Canada, but I made a search in Henry's and nothing came up. (I've never heard of Blazinol. Did you mean Adinol?)
 
Blazinol is a remade Rodinal. Looks and works the same - though I am not sure about the longevity of it.
As for raw chemistry - I havent found a Canadian supplier since JPChem in Montreal closed down. Still looking though. Getting stuff from Photographers Formulary is fairly easy. They will ship to Canada.
The trick is to buy enough to see you through a couple of years of processing.
The "Digital Truth" (?) also stocks chemisttry. I have not tried them, but their price seem reasonable.
 
JeffL said:
No international shipping though for liquid chemicals.
I wish a photo store in Canada would sell C41 kits.
I'm going to order the powder kit from B&H
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I've purchased the Unicolor kits from freestylephoto and I've used then on a batch of C-41 films. They turned out okay.
 
JeffL said:
No international shipping though for liquid chemicals.
I wish a photo store in Canada would sell C41 kits.
I'm going to order the powder kit from B&H
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BeauPhoto, beauphoto.com, in Vancover sells the liquid C41 kits and was supposed to be getting more of the E6 kits. I have ordered and recieved the Unicolor 5L C41 kit. It is more expensive than what Freestyle advertises (probably not a lot once you figure in duties and shipping) but it is available.
 
Kkiuru said:
Does somebody know where to get the bulk stuff in Europe?
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Skoda Foto in Prague was terrific, but I think they may have lost a great deal of their stock in flooding? They used to have tons in storage.

Foma kept a reasonably stocked store on Wencelas Square, and there were other stores in Prague that kept chemistry stores. I have not been back in a few years though, so things have certainly changed.

I brought home what I could determine was the most difficult to get raw chemicals, they were very inexpensive then, perhaps I am sitting on a gold mine. ;-) Or not.

I found Kodak packaged raw chemicals were always very expensive, but I had access to Chemistry Suppliers, (Flynn Scientific, etc) and could order shipped to work cheaply.

Over the years they would bring in packaged powers from old stocks and move them quickly. My friend Jan from Frankfurt recognized many interesting old formulations from the factories of the old East.

Regards, John
 
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