Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 8/6/02 6:16 PM, Tim Atherton at tim@KairosPhoto.com wrote: > >> Don't even think about it for critical work, never mind to practice >> with. All my experience with those films have found them to have very >> poor latitude. The mid range is just about non existent, for want of a >> better description. It doesn't push well either. > > Interesting - all my experience with Arista 400 in 8x10 is that it has come > out exactly as I would have expected HP5 which is a beautiful film. The > tests I have seen done of this film (all that densitometer stuff and so on) > have shown it's curves etc. to be identical too.. odd > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html As far as I have been told there aren t that many coating plants for B&W in the world Kodak USA Agfa Germany (Orowo former DDR now part of Agfa) Efke Fotokemika Croatia (old DuPont films) Svema The Ukraine Solaris Ferrani 3M Imation Italy Fuji Japan Konica Japan Tacma Russia (still around???) Lucky China Ilford England (only UK plant...Freestyle Arista is made in UK? Hmm?) Any onw know of any others - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html