Café Obscura Sudbury
611 Kathleen Street P3C 2N4 Greater Sudbury, ON, Canada

We’re open all week noon-6. Drop off your film for developing. #cafeobscurasudbury

It worked! Thanks To Bob Houle for the test reels! #super8 #super8film

Testing the super8/8mm film transfer unit.

Available soon at the store! Another 11x14 ambrotype on clear glass test. Worked pretty good, I think. I need to do a better job cleaning the glass- I think that’s the culprit for some white marks on the image. Thanks @jonathandanyliw for stopping by and having seat. . .... . Home built 11x14 camera, Besseler 18 f3.7 projection lens, 11x14 ambrotype . . . #11x14camera #ambrotype #homemadecamera #allthroughalenspodcast #sunny16podcast #shootfilmbenice #cafeobscurasudbury #wetplatephotography #wetplatecollodion #ultralargeformatphotography See more

Only two pickup and drop off days this week. Tuesday & Wednesday noon to 2

Big news!!!! We’re moving to where all the cool kids are - were relocating to Kathleen Street! Yup, that’s right just doors down from @tucostacolounge , @beardsbakery , @cosmicdavesvinyl Right next door to Escape Artists. While I’m sad to leave the beautiful space on Elm Street (it’s going to live on as a beautiful restaurant), I will be transforming Café Obscura into a full time film photography store, a working tintype and film portrait studio by @davidwiewel The most e...xciting part of this relocation will be the creation of @darkroomobscura , a 24 hour access black and white darkroom, complete with wet printing and scanning capabilities. I’m looking forward to welcoming the @sudburyphotographycollective into the fold and to provide space and access for all your darkroom needs. All of this will allow me to concentrate on shooting more, printing more and mentoring more. I couldn’t be more excited. I’m hoping to be open at the new location early March. There will be bumps along the road and developing my take a bit longer than usual while I renovate and move. Please be patient with me. 2021 is going to awesome!

Curbside, online orders only. Noon-2 Monday to Friday. Link in bio

We’re doing curbside today noon-2 Drop off film and get some fresh film. Order via link in bio.

Hasselblad 500C with 80mm f2.8. Link in bio or here: https://checkout.square.site/buy/AHFQ2SX6UKMCDXFVPMEFJOJO

Now in stock! Ilford 4x5 film. #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice #sunny16podcast #allthroughalenspodcast

In the shop and online. Konica Zup 60 point and shoot. #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice #sunny16podcast #allthroughalenspodcast

Now stocking @pictoriographica J Lane dry plates in 4x5 and 8x10. #dryplate #cafeobscurasudbury #allthroughalenspodcast #sunny16podcast

C41 powder kits!

Cameras and beers? Soon! #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice

New issue out now! Get it at the café!

This beautiful beast just arrived. Excellent condition Pentax 6x7 with the legendary 105. Link in bio or here: https://checkout.square.site/buy/YZSNXQT4MNGLSDYGS3QLMTNQ #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice #pentax67 #allthroughalenspodcast #sunny16podcast

Schneider Super-Angulon 121mm f8. Covers 5x7. Link in bio.

New darkroom printing papers in stock! 8x10 and 11x14. Link in bio, look under darkroom category

Schneider Super-Angulon 90mm f8. Lots of movements on 4x5. Link in bio.

Another nice little point and shoot in the shop!

We have donuts today!

Hoboes, California, 1975. I was hired in 1975 by the California Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to travel the roads of California for 4 months to make a p...hotographic documentation about poverty in this state at that time. During this period, I was all over the state, driving my Volkswagen, and sleeping in flea bag hotels and eating diner food, and photographing. Among the many people I met, I rode the trains with men called "Hoboes", who were homeless and road trains, hiding and sleeping in boxcars-eternal nomads, that would find occasional day jobs to help keep themselves fed. This body of work, some of which was exhibited and published at the time, has rarely been seen, and never been published in book form. It is among the work I have done in my lifetime I am most proud of, and there is a real "Grapes of Wrath" quality about these photographs that now, 45 years later, already represent a period in our collective history. I showed these photographs to W. Eugene Smith at John Morris' New York apartment over a dinner in late August of 1975, and he took me aside and leaned over and whispered in my ear, "Peter, you have a good heart, and very good eyes-you can do this-no one well ever hold your hand-but I encourage you to follow your heart, and do this". Following that conversation I dropped out of college for a year and moved to Paris that fall, and studied French at the Sorbonne and completed a reportage on the old cafés of Le Marais District of Paris for a period of 8 months, before returning to finish my undergraduate degree at the U. of Michigan with a degree in French Literature. I then worked a year building concrete highways in Indiana to save money and moved back to live in Paris for good, in 1978. During those 4 months in California in 1975 I learned much about the fragility of life. I also learned a lot about the haves and have nots of our world. And, there had never been a question for me-my heart finds itself always more preoccupied about people that have too little, rather than about those that have too much. I will eventually publish a new book, "The Unseen California", and look forward in the future to these photographs being known by the world. Peter Turnley, somewhere in Central California, 1975.

Rodenstock 270mm f5.6. Covers 4x5 with little movements. Link in bio.

https://emulsive.org//5-frames-of-trichromes-with-ilford-f

Nikkor-T ED 360mm f8 4x5 lens. Near mint. Link in bio.

Nikkor-W 150mm f5.6 lens for 4x5. Near mint. Link in bio.

Toyo Field 45A II 4x5 camera. New bellows. Excellent condition. Link in bio (look for Medium & Largeformat). #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice #sunny16podcast #allthroughalenspodcast

New stock! #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice

New SWAG! Locally made T-Shirts by @jhsilkscreens and they’re beautiful! Small, medium and large available in store or online. Link in bio. #shootfilmbenice #sunny16podcast #allthroughalenspodcast #cafeobscurasudbury

Fancy! Acrylic pins! PWYC. #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice

Gold hoodies in the house!

Some of my fast friends. Nikkor 180mm f2.8, AF Nikkor 300mm f2.8, Nikkor 135mm f2 on a Nikon F2, and a Nikkor 105mm f1.8. #nikkor #cafeobscurasudbury #alltheoughalenapodcast #sunny16podcast

Dude! I have the Autumn 2020 issue of @silvergrainclassics at the café. There is a terrific article on Jeff Bridges and his use of a #widelux camera. Check it out next time you’re in for a coffee. #cafeobscurasudbury #sunny16podcast #allthroughalenspodcast #shootfilmbenice

Two new light meters in the shop. Link in bio

Fuji point and shoot! Drop in loading, autofocus, panorama and it uses AA batteries! Link in bio.

New SWAG alert! Hoodies just in time for the cold weather! Charcoal with yellow ink. Small, medium, large and XL. As always, printed in Sudbury by @jhsilkscreens #cafeobscurasudbury #shootfilmbenice #allthroughalenspodcast #sunny16podcast

I’ve got loads of negs that haven’t been picked up. Too many to message everyone. This box is from August 2019 to January 2020. If you haven’t picked up your negatives, come get em! They’re going in the dumpster October 15

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Ultra wide Spiratone 18mm lens for Nikon in the store! Link in bio or here https://cafeobscurasudbury.square.site/

Nikon FA body in the shop! Link in bio or here https://cafeobscurasudbury.square.site/