I always associated developers with Kodak D 76, Microdol X, Dektol, and other solutions from Ansco, Agfa, Ilford, etc. thus the only enlightening ‘solution’ was to write the following photographic rhyming ditty.
I miss the Sylvania flash bulb number five.
Wow, pow, did it ever explode with light.
Without one, shooting inside, it was hard to photographically survive.
For the old photography, some of us still have a healthy appetite.
When Kodachrome was ASA ten
and black and white film about a hundred speed, way back when,
both an exposure meter and tripod would often need.
In Vancouver there was Gagel Photo, close to 4th and Alma. Their black and white prints were so good. Mortifee-Munshaw, on Richards, processed for practically every format camera, providing great colour and, usually at the end of the day a customer could view their Ektachrome slides or Kodacolor color prints.
It was fun browsing at Dunne and Rundle Cameras off Granville and still is at Leos, close to the Granville Street Bridge. Others had their processing done at Custom Color off Robson and some professional films had to be stored in a fridge. Most of those days have become history; It’s become mainly digitalized and pixel-side. Some of us dinosaurs still miss the old chemistry. Those latent images, in us, through memory are still well developed and fixed inside.
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