photo chemicals in Nederlands

[nobbylon]

Help needed please from the Nederlands! Can anyone tell me the cheapest place to buy XTOL and Fixer in the Nederlands please? Amsterdam, Hague, Rotterdam area. thanks in advance, john

 

[Peter S]

www.nivo-schweitzer.nl/ in Amsterdam, but better call to check about Xtol (they do have a lot of Ilford chemistry). Otherwise www.camexprofessional.nl/, same comments about calling/checking.

The Hague and Rotterdam, no clue, but hopefully somebody else can give you pointers.

 

[titrisol]

I live in the Rotterdam area.

In Roterdam tehe BEELD-GEBOUW across the street from the zoo has a nice stock
www.hetbeeldgebouw.nl do not know if they are the cheapest but 1E more per bottle is payable

If you want to buy via mail check fotohuis-rovo... he may chime in anyways
PS. fotohuis website seems to be down right now

Help needed please from the Nederlands! Can anyone tell me the cheapest place to buy XTOL and Fixer in the Nederlands please? Amsterdam, Hague, Rotterdam area. thanks in advance, john

 

[Peter S]

What I forgot to add that it is quite hard to find all your chemicals just round the corner, so I basically order everything from www.fotoimpex.de which I find very cheap and well stocked. Alternatively I use shortage of darkroom supplies as an excuse for a trip to Berlin 🙂

 

[MartinP]

Unfortunately my local (in the Achterhoek) stockist recently stopped with darkroom supplies, so I might try Utrecht again, or Amsterdam/Den Haag (using the information above, in this thread). I think Fotohuisrovo is temporarily affected by the owners health, but that would be another local possibility for me.

Most recently though, I took a daytrip to Antwerp and came back via Grobet (www.grobet.be).

 

[Ronald_H]

Indeed, the RoVo website seems to be down (again). Pity, I wanted to order a nice stash of film. My local camera store does not even stock B/W film anymore :-(

 

[titrisol]

Robert is having health problems?
that is a pity!
I need to order more Fomapan and papers and chemicals...

FotoImpex it will be then

PS when you order from fotohuis test the Superpan, the base is celar so you can copy your negatives in it and make monochrome slides!

 

[johannielscom]

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If you want to buy via mail check fotohuis-rovo... he may chime in anyways
PS. fotohuis website seems to be down right now...

On APUG I read some time ago that Fotohuis RoVo's owner is in hospital due to a disease. Seems this is a long-term issue. Since it's a one-man business, it might be permanently.

Which is a very sad development for analog photography in The Netherlands, the man was the single most knowledgable authority on chemicals and developing. Even my preferred photostore is about to suffer from shortage in D76 Amaloco in the next few months, since RoVo was the main importer for chemicals in The Netherlands.

 

[johannielscom]

will start a new thread to raise awareness that photographers need to choose their preferred European supplier to make sure we can turn anywhere at all in the future.

This is the time to make the switch, and allow our new supplier to grow into a healthy business. United we stand, divided we fall!

 

[titrisol]

Yep, Robert was sick, but his website is back
so he is in bussiness 😉
http://www.fotohuisrovo.nl/

fotoimpex in Berlin is really cool, so is macoDirect.de
both in germany but they ship to hetherlands no problem.... you may have to pay yet another tax in the netherlands, but I guess the queen needs a new hat

On APUG I read some time ago that Fotohuis RoVo's owner is in hospital due to a disease. Seems this is a long-term issue. Since it's a one-man business, it might be permanently.

Which is a very sad development for analog photography in The Netherlands, the man was the single most knowledgable authority on chemicals and developing. Even my preferred photostore is about to suffer from shortage in D76 Amaloco in the next few months, since RoVo was the main importer for chemicals in The Netherlands.