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Artcraft is a family-owned business started over 30 years ago. We cater to the B/W alternative Photo Community, providing high quality, high purity photo chemicals to Businesses, Museum’s, Colleges and Universities, as well as Professional Photographer’s and Hobbyists.
For the creative photographer, darkroom enthusiast, and professional photographer The Formulary provides options for photographic processes you have heard about in easy to use kits and chemistry.
The automatic development systems for sale are way out of my pay grade. No worries, there must be many DIY projects online. I just wanted to pour in the chemicals, push a button, and do other stuff until the timer buzzed.
Loading Tool for 35mm Film Reels
A tool to make it easier to load the film spool from the film cartridge. After a few test runs of the original model, some changes were made. The film cartridge can now be clipped in more easily and is mounted flexibly, there is more space for the fingers between the film spool and the film cartridge and the film can be cut more easily with scissors.
Quality / Film Mail-In Film Developing at Affordable Prices. Where we send ours. Cleveland, Ohio.
Processing ECN-2 film, in ECN-2 process, at home
Proper ECN-2 processing, assuming you’re wanting to process less than 1000 feet at a time, is uhh.. inaccessible. I know of no labs in the US that will process it properly for short 36 exposure rolls. The best I know of is some labs will handle remjet for you and then process it in C-41. So, why not process it properly at home though?
The Adobe DNG Converter enables you to easily convert camera-specific raw files from supported cameras to a more universal DNG raw file. Another benefit of using the DNG Converter is backward compatibility.
Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshow program/image browser, for flipping through folders or disks full of images. Phoenix Slides also does lossless JPEG transformations and can display EXIF data. It runs on macOS 10.13 or later.
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, retouching and color adjustments.
They reverse engineered over 7400 scanners and included built in drivers in VueScan so you can keep using the scanner you already have. Download VueScan and start scanning in 60 seconds.
The VALOI easy35, takes camera scanning more accessible with a new form factor. Instead of a copy stand based approach, the easy35 attaches to the front of your macro lens and has a built in light and replaceable holders.
A lot of people worry about their exposure when they start out shooting film. Not being able to see your results until you get your scans back and learning to trust your own abilities instead of instantly reviewing an image or histogram on the back of your camera takes time and getting used to.
KODAK Color Negative Chemicals Make a Triumphant Return!
KODAK Color Negative photo chemicals are officially back in production! Thanks to a collaboration between Photo Systems Inc. (PSI) and CineStill Inc., and with the support of Eastman Kodak Co., the iconic KODAK Color Negative chemicals — formerly known as KODAK FLEXICOLOR — are available once again.