Incredible shop. They didn’t officially accept one4all vouchers a few years ago when I had an abundance of them from sales bonuses in work. But I wanted to buy my missus a camera and was skint. They accepted them as part payment. Gas thing is I only pulled out the camera yesterday for the first time in years.
The loveliest people.
Is the fridge on? I didn’t know people kept film in a fridge
The man is a gent and his daughters are doing a great job carrying on the service.
They’re on Wexford Street in Dublin 2, or for all you hipsters, across the road from Whelans
edit: u/Shaka1277 informs us John is 90 tomorrow (!) and the Library Project shop (www.thelibraryproject.ie) are hosting an exhibition for his birthday that day.
Amazing shop, and I loved to go there. Unfortunately, after Covid they stopped accepting slide film for E-6 processing, which was the final nail in the coffin for my photography (at least until I can justify buying a full-sensor digital camera), and I didn’t need to shop there anymore.
I wonder what the etiquette is on analog film forums when it comes to posting photos. Seems like a lot of pressure.
Is John and his wife still working there? Surely they are retired by now? The whole family are lovely. I used Gunn’s a lot while I was doing my photography degree in Griffith college a dozen years ago.
It’s one of the few real spaces left in the world. Something tangeable rather than something manufactured.
I rang them years ago looking for a spare part for a Canon F-1 in the vain hope that maybe they had something on a shelf I could part out. Not only did he recognise the issue – but recalled how hard a part it was to find decades before when he’d had one returned for warranty for the same issue because it was supposed to be impossible.
I still drop by ever now and then, but the light of my soul has dimmed a bit lately – it’s hard to create anything anymore.
I’ve bought lenses from them, had family trips developed there and even a load of random weeb photos from cons. Pretty much every photo I’ve posted here came from there.
Only had the pleasure of talking to John once a couple of years ago when I popped in to ask a daft question about processing a bunch of old b/w rolls I’ve had sitting at the bottom of a bag for over a decade.
An *extraordinary* man and an absolute gent. Quietly reading poetry *as Gaeilge*, helping people out, utterly *souverän*…wonderful, wonderful person and a great shop.
Good stock of permajet papers there too.
Pal of mine died last year. His dad wanted some photos from a lads holiday we were on 30+ years ago.
Was sat at the kitchen table one day going through old negatives looking for the ones tbe dad wanted. Kids, even the 18yr old, were fascinated by them.
Beautiful shoo, just remembered I have to collect some photos
I used to love shooting with XP400. A really neat BW film that you could develop using C41, at which point you got a nice sepia tint.
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Incredible shop. They didn’t officially accept one4all vouchers a few years ago when I had an abundance of them from sales bonuses in work. But I wanted to buy my missus a camera and was skint. They accepted them as part payment. Gas thing is I only pulled out the camera yesterday for the first time in years.
The loveliest people.
Is the fridge on? I didn’t know people kept film in a fridge
The man is a gent and his daughters are doing a great job carrying on the service.
They’re on Wexford Street in Dublin 2, or for all you hipsters, across the road from Whelans
edit: u/Shaka1277 informs us John is 90 tomorrow (!) and the Library Project shop (www.thelibraryproject.ie) are hosting an exhibition for his birthday that day.
Amazing shop, and I loved to go there. Unfortunately, after Covid they stopped accepting slide film for E-6 processing, which was the final nail in the coffin for my photography (at least until I can justify buying a full-sensor digital camera), and I didn’t need to shop there anymore.
I wonder what the etiquette is on analog film forums when it comes to posting photos. Seems like a lot of pressure.
Is John and his wife still working there? Surely they are retired by now? The whole family are lovely. I used Gunn’s a lot while I was doing my photography degree in Griffith college a dozen years ago.
It’s one of the few real spaces left in the world. Something tangeable rather than something manufactured.
I rang them years ago looking for a spare part for a Canon F-1 in the vain hope that maybe they had something on a shelf I could part out. Not only did he recognise the issue – but recalled how hard a part it was to find decades before when he’d had one returned for warranty for the same issue because it was supposed to be impossible.
I still drop by ever now and then, but the light of my soul has dimmed a bit lately – it’s hard to create anything anymore.
I’ve bought lenses from them, had family trips developed there and even a load of random weeb photos from cons. Pretty much every photo I’ve posted here came from there.
Only had the pleasure of talking to John once a couple of years ago when I popped in to ask a daft question about processing a bunch of old b/w rolls I’ve had sitting at the bottom of a bag for over a decade.
An *extraordinary* man and an absolute gent. Quietly reading poetry *as Gaeilge*, helping people out, utterly *souverän*…wonderful, wonderful person and a great shop.
Good stock of permajet papers there too.
Pal of mine died last year. His dad wanted some photos from a lads holiday we were on 30+ years ago.
Was sat at the kitchen table one day going through old negatives looking for the ones tbe dad wanted. Kids, even the 18yr old, were fascinated by them.
Beautiful shoo, just remembered I have to collect some photos
I used to love shooting with XP400. A really neat BW film that you could develop using C41, at which point you got a nice sepia tint.
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