Where to buy film in Boston

Hello,

I will be in Boston in late April and I always like to know where to buy extra

120 Black and white film when I travel. I will be without a car and near the

Hynes Convention Center. Can anyone recommend a place for purchasing film?

Thanks,

J

Hunt's Photo & Video at 520 Commonwealth Ave would be a short cab ride away. They carry 120 B&W film. http://www.huntsphotoandvideo.com/listing.cfm?box=1&cid=21&CFID=3598330&CFTOKEN=b52af5afbb3036ed-991246B6-1372-4D16-BE35C742DA5FA4EA&jsessionid=ce303444421175094183606

Calumet Photo next to Cambridgeside Galleria (on Bent Street I think) has an excellent selection of films.

There's also a Hunt's Photo about two blocks from the Oak Grove stop on the Orange Line (rapid transit) on the Malden/Melrose town line.

three blocks down from hynes on boylston is

 

Ritz Camera,

Copley Square,

659 Boylston Street,

Boston, MA 02116,

Phone: 617-266-8931

 

you can call ahead to check if they have what you need.

three blocks down from Hynes Convention Center on Boylston is

 

Ritz Camera 659 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, Phone: 617-266-8931

 

you can call ahead to check if they have what you need.

three blocks down from hynes on boylston is

 

Ritz Camera,

Copley Square,

659 Boylston Street,

Boston, MA 02116,

Phone: 617-266-8931

 

you can call ahead to check if they have what you need.

three blocks down from hynes on boylston is

 

Ritz Camera,

Copley Square,

659 Boylston Street,

Boston, MA 02116,

Phone: 617-266-8931

 

you can call ahead to check if they have what you need.

three blocks down from Hynes Convention Center on Boylston is

 

Ritz Camera 659 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, Phone: 617-266-8931

 

you can call ahead to check if they have what you need.

three blocks down from hynes on boylston is

 

Ritz Camera,

Copley Square,

659 Boylston Street,

Boston, MA 02116,

Phone: 617-266-8931

 

you can call ahead to check if they have what you need.

<a href = "http://www.bromfieldcamera.com/">Bromfield Camera</a> at Downtown Crossing is a little further, but may be in your range for that afternoon you are ditching from the conference :)

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It's also closer to the touristy things you are likely to want to take pictures of.

The Calumet store is near the Lechmere end of the Green Line MBTA subway line that the Hynes is also on. They have lots of refrigerated film. Closed Sundays, but finally open Saturdays.

 

Hunt's has the advantage that all their stores are open Sunday. They started as Hunt Drug, and being a drug store, could avoid the blue laws then in effect and be open Sundays. Until the blue laws crumbled in the late 1980's, it was the ONLY place in the area to buy film on a Sunday. Plenty of press photographers used to run there when they ran out of film.

 

There's also E. P. Levine on the South Boston waterfront, definitely a pro shop, M-F 9-5 only.

 

I would be very surprised if any Ritz branch has 120 film.

Hunt's in Kenmore Sq is convenient. But generally I order my film from bhphoto.com.

I had no idea there was a Hunt's in Kenmore Square. Is that new?

 

Anyway, if Hunt's doesn't work out, Calumet in East Cambridge will be your best bet.