Bargains Thread

joxby said:
Posted on another forum, cheap B/W film

The suggestion is its Shanghai GP3, its cheap @ £2.33 a roll of 120

http://www.pixel-store.co.uk/list=bw120.html

4X5 5X7 and 10X8 sheet film also available
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Looks like GP3 from the backing paper. Though it can be cheaper from eBay sellers direct.

I wonder what the sheet stuff is, £20 is cheap though if its just reboxed fomapan its not really much of a saving.
 
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Its in Plymouth not Shanghai...:)

I probably wouldn't use it anyway, shot some Lucky 100 which I quite liked, but not enough to shoot it wholesale..
 
joxby said:
Its in Plymouth not Shanghai...:)

I probably wouldn't use it anyway, shot some Lucky 100 which I quite liked, but not enough to shoot it wholesale..
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I quite like GP3 though I prefer FP4 and for the little I shoot its not really much of saving at the moment.
 
But this was the last! One! EVAR!
 
excalibur2 said:
The seller needs a new keyboard...
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I can offer one in part ex for the enlarger.....my keyboard plus a quid to make up the différence should do it!:D

It's the last one ever made by Microsoft in 2010 !:p :D
 
I'm almost tempted to message that guy on eBay, just for a laugh. Maybe offer him a fiver for it. What a plonker :)
 
Strappy said:
I think he's got any questions covered ... o_O
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I'm hoping we can haggle. I'll go as far as £6, with lens and delivered. And he'll have to convince/fight the missus to let me bring it in the house. Our under stairs cupboard is already filled with an enlarger and other crap. I've been threatened with domestic violence if anything else marked Durst or Meopta shows up at the door.
 
C'mon....33 minutes left, somebody press the BIN button for the hell of it...

whats the worst that could happen, I'd do it but I'm still playing with matches and thus preoccupied with a dangerous activity already.. :)
 
If you missed it, worry not, it has been relisted... at the same price!
 
Probably the fate of most 5x4 enlargers in the last 10 years has been the skip. Not many dealers will touch them as mostly they don't sell and just take up space for years.
 
I don't have space in my house either, but I bullied my dad into giving me a corner in the shed to put an enlarger. He was not pleased when he went in and saw I had stapled black bags over all the windows to make it light tight :lol: I don't really use it as much as I had planned because it's such a ballsache setting everything up in the shed. I've told my girlfriend that when we get a house we need an extra room for me to have as a darkroom lol
 
Carl Hall said:
I don't have space in my house either, but I bullied my dad into giving me a corner in the shed to put an enlarger. He was not pleased when he went in and saw I had stapled black bags over all the windows to make it light tight :LOL: I don't really use it as much as I had planned because it's such a ballsache setting everything up in the shed. I've told my girlfriend that when we get a house we need an extra room for me to have as a darkroom lol
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Well I had one in my garage and it was sooo cold at times in winter and with heating bills, it just adds to the expense....well OK with a hobby why worry about money ;)
 
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I'm going to have to make do with the spare bathroom. Trying to figure out how best to make room for the enlarger. Current plan is to sit a thick piece of wood on half the bath, leaving the other half underneath for the chemical trays. Print washing to be done in the basin. Just hoping I can get away with not having to move the enlarger very often, as it's massive and weighs a ton. With a bit of luck, I'll only have to shift it when we have people to stay. Got some of that stick on vinyl for the window, but not sure what to do with the door other than push a towel against the bottom edge. The other three sides aren't sealed too well. I could install a curtain if it was a full time darkroom, but it's primarily still a bathroom, so not sure what to do. I guess I could only use it at night and ask the missus not to turn the light on outside...though I can see that plan ending in wasted paper.
 
FujiLove said:
I'm going to have to make do with the spare bathroom. Trying to figure out how best to make room for the enlarger. Current plan is to sit a thick piece of wood on half the bath, leaving the other half underneath for the chemical trays. Print washing to be done in the basin. Just hoping I can get away with not having to move the enlarger very often, as it's massive and weighs a ton. With a bit of luck, I'll only have to shift it when we have people to stay. Got some of that stick on vinyl for the window, but not sure what to do with the door other than push a towel against the bottom edge. The other three sides aren't sealed too well. I could install a curtain if it was a full time darkroom, but it's primarily still a bathroom, so not sure what to do. I guess I could only use it at night and ask the missus not to turn the light on outside...though I can see that plan ending in wasted paper.
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I've used my bathroom for tray developing film and I struggled with the door issue as well. I had three ideas how to block the light out but never really tried them so can't say if they work or not lol. I'd imagine they're good enough for prints but not really good enough for film.
  • Get a large thin blanket and place if over the open door, then shut the door. If you use a thin blanket it might be enough to block the light out without stopping the door from shutting.
  • Buy a roll of that foamy draft excluder and put it all the way round the door frame, so that the foam takes up the gaps and blocks the light.
  • Put a couple of hooks on the outside of the door, and hang a blanket over the door. If you can block most of the light from hitting the door from the outside then I imagine hardly anything would get through the cracks.
I tried the whole "please don't turn the hallway lights on for the next half hour" thing, but that turned to poo as soon as my brother got home and flicked the lights on to go up the stairs. Cue me diving onto the trays trying to block the light with my chest and arms whilst frantically shouting "THE LIGHTS! THE LIGHTS!!"
 
Carl Hall said:
I tried the whole "please don't turn the hallway lights on for the next half hour" thing, but that turned to poo as soon as my brother got home and flicked the lights on to go up the stairs. Cue me diving onto the trays trying to block the light with my chest and arms whilst frantically shouting "THE LIGHTS! THE LIGHTS!!"
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Take the bloody bulb out!
 
TheBigYin said:
Take the bloody bulb out!
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Haha, it took my long enough to convince the parents to let me develop film in the bathroom at all... If I went around taking bulbs out I think I'd come home from work one day to find my key didn't work in the locks!

I've managed to bodge it with a blanket over the door and a towel underneath now (plus a blanket held in the window frame with a telescopic curtain pole, and a piece of card taped over the air vent.) Only source of light now is the bloomin boiler which lights up like the eye of Sauron every time someone turns the hot tap on
 
I started using my bedroom as a darkroom. We had some black leather (or leather type) material that had been stripped from an old sofa before it went and this was rolled up and tied at both ends behind the pelmet. To use, the bows were untied and the material rolled down to cover the window. A few drawing pins held it at the bottom and sides. I used a wash stand for the enlarger and trays, and the cupboards in it held the chemicals and trays etc when not in use.

In our first house, we tried the bathroom, but it was very awkward.

My current setup uses space off our upper landing into the roof area for which the builders conveniently laid down flooring (this was pre war). I put battens in to create a room with no windows. The door was a problem, easily solved with two hooks holding a piece of string over the door, and a double thickness of the plastic sheeting you get in garden centres to hold back the light to suppress weeds draped over it as a curtain. It works well enough for me to not see light, and to load developing tanks and dark slides.

If you have the floor space anywhere, a Nova darkroom tent could be an option.
 
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