Category: Getting Stuff

About vendors of photo and art materials, training, you know, stuff.

gooood morning Time Transfer

Posted on Posted in dye transfer, Getting Stuff, grammar of gimme, minimum daily requirement, The Biz

price as power. power of condit. belief in power. so it comes to this.. hold onto it long enough… you don’t use it, neither does anyone else. What could have been $400 useable wasn’t of interest, nor of use. In these ongoing times, money vanished. The chosen become beggars.

INFLATION DEFLATED.

Condit 4×5 pin registration equipment

–[So I’m holding onto it for them. But even if they don’t, $1000 is more than a fair price for the gear 
if it’s something you need…  and if it’s not something you need, $400 is a waste of your good money! [smile] –— 2019

slowly we flip calendars… stations change… so, too, voices of options.

 The big name dropper posts:  I want to sell my set of Condit 4x5 pin registration equipment:
 
    -- 4"x5"  Precision Negative Carrier
    -- Two of the rectangular/diagonal cut upper-class inserts for the carrier
    -- Two of the rectangular lower-glass inserts for the carrier. The end of one is broken off, but it doesn't intrude into the image area with 4 x 5 separations.
    -- Two film punches, one set up for four-inch wide film and the other for 5 inch wide film
    -- Two Condit wooden contact printing frames, 7" x 9" inner diameter
    -- Three pin-register glass plates, 7" x 9", for the contact frames
    -- Some odd mounting brackets and bits of hardware and screws that apparently are used to affix the Precision Negative Carrier to some enlargers. I never needed them with mine, so I don't know how they work.
    
I’d like to get $500 for it. Any takers? --- 2025

Guess he didn’t keep my open ended offer (SMILE) ..(WINK) (BLINK)..

UND ZO EET GOEZ

Guess he would never consider donating the items to anyone, perhaps the keepers of the dye transfer group he uses to broadcast

Supplies: Talas

Posted on Posted in Getting Stuff, minimum daily requirement, The Biz, The Studio

talas. bookbinding, archiving, archival

Supplies needed within a studio/lab vary, sometimes by your stage, Talas has supplied me book binding, mounting supplies almost longer than any other vendor used.

Their catalog / newsletter is a learning tool. And a respite from the zigzag threaded boards.

My catalog

Others with similar/same supplies:

  • Archival Methods
  • Gaylord
  • Hollinger
  • Talas
  • University Products
  • American Frame
  • Frame Destination
  • Warehouse Framers
  • Clear Bags
  • Climax Photo
  • Portfolios and Art Cases
  • Portfoliobox

Equipment Poor

Posted on Posted in Getting Stuff, overnight notes, the Lab, Valley Hi1 Comment

Do we need equipment/ does machine make the print? Is it the wand or the wizard {the setup)

How much equipment, supplies do you have that you don’t use, haven’t used in, what, a year, five, more? When you die, how many dumpsters will be filled. Did you buy it to brag or build.

I heard the phrase, “equipment poor” from a salesman suggesting that I wait before buying the new enlarger I wanted. His advice, which I took, was based upon his knowing that a new professional studio had bought too much equipment, more than their income warranted. They would fold; with that closure would come a darkroom, studio, as well as office.

The photographer didn’t have money, he had equipment. In silicon speak, he didn’t have runway… other years: his burn was too high. Tech Money loves to talk macho, military. They wear the fantasy. Role playing is the hallmark of the empty page.

Most startups across all fields fail for similar reasons. Hope isn’t knowledge. Skill isn’t profitable. Neither Hope nor Skill are unique factors. They are basics, like eyebrows.

My labs grew by bits. They grew with used equipment and new clients. Rarely did I sell equipment, although I did sell clients.

The equipment bought new would be lenses. During the 90s collapse, labs would give equipment away rather than paying salvage to dismantle and haul it.