nealcurrie

Thanks for everyone's input. No local club. The school is 100% digital and removed their darkroom. There was a young neighbour shooting film (since moved) and he declined it. I'm about 12 hours from Vancouver, so a bit too far. :)

I also went through a short phase in which I was shooting lots of TechPan - developing in Technidol as per Kodak's instructions. I was occasionally able to make use of the super resolution with very careful technique and superb lenses, but when using anything but top-notch lenses the film was clearly more capable than the lens. About 15 years ago I shot, developed, printed, scanned (prints), and posted a detailed comparison of A) 35mm TMX vs B) 35mm Tech Pan vs. b) 6x4.5 TMX vs D) 6x7 TMX. You can see full details at Technicalities, though the tl;dr version is that with prints at 16x20, TechPan did pretty darn well compared to the much bigger negatives.

I loved the tones and overall appearance of the images I got with Plus-X, and was sad when it was discontinued. I learned to live with TMX for a while but mostly switched to TMY-2 after it came out.

Canada.

I forgot to mention that I live in a small community that is a prohibitive distance from any major population centre for anyone to drive here.

I have duplicates of everything and since my darkroom became much smaller several years ago it's time to try to move my stuff on to someone else who may use it. Any general advice? I'd been planning to sell on Ebay since I've been doing that for years, but semi-recently they made changes and now require more information about me than I'm comfortable giving them. Some items are: Saunders LPL 670DXL, various negative carriers, NIkkor 50mm & 80mm, LPL 14x17 adjustable 4-blade easel, smaller LPL speed easels, IC timer, various patterson trays. I actually managed to dismantle and securely Tetris together the enlarger parts into a box for which the shipping wasn't ridiculous.

<p>I had success with Technidol (retail long since available); didn't have success with TD-3. Sold off my bulk rolls of TP many years ago - do you have a bulk roll or a single roll?<br /><br />The film often outperformed my lenses, and I had some pretty damn sharp Pentax K-mount primes. Have fun.</p>