If I remember correctly Downtown Camera in Toronto maintained a good dip/dunk system in-house for B&W processing. Is this still a high quality lab? (this would be for 4x5 B&W negatives)
Thanks
If I remember correctly Downtown Camera in Toronto maintained a good dip/dunk system in-house for B&W processing. Is this still a high quality lab? (this would be for 4x5 B&W negatives)
Thanks
hi Michael - They are the only lab that is piling film through both their processors... dip and dunk - brand new machines . You can ask them how many times they are running calibration strips, one a day on BW should be good depending on the volume of the machine. I send all clients to them as I do not want to process film for others. ( I do have a few clients that I still process for and have been doing this for them since 1991 ). Contact Claudia Mac or Harry Mac they are the owners and really decent people. I am not sure how much large format they see these days so you want to email them in advance to check their guidelines.
That’s great to hear, Bob. Thanks for this. I’ve been researching and experimenting with development uniformity (read: deep, dark, scary rat hole) and I want to get some test films developed by quality labs doing dip/dunk. There’s a place in Montreal called Borealis that also does quite a bit of this (in fact I think Downtown Camera outsources some of their roll film E6 to Borealis) but I’d like to try a few good places hence my question about Downtown Camera. I remember reading they had acquired a new Hostert for B&W relatively recently.
I also want to sample Jobo/Expert drum processes. There’s one local lab here that apparently uses a Jobo with Expert drums to process 4x5. I had access to a nice new CPP-3 at a school lab here for a time but covid ruined that for now. Grrr.
Thanks again for the info.
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