Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:53 PM 2/8/04 -0600, Jeffery Smith wrote: >Back when they were making the Retina? Hmmm. The lenses were good, but >they were Schneider lenses. I thought as early as 1968 that Ilford was >better B&W film, and Chinese-made Seagull paper and Ilford paper were >better than Kodak. And then they really decided to get frugal and put >less and less silver in their paper, and I couldn't get a true black >from it. The reduction in silver content was dictated by the EPA. Ilford and AGFA were both spared a like fate for some years, though even they did not come close to the high silver content of the old Warsaw Pact stuff such as ORWO and Forte. Ilford came under the same guidelines as Kodak when they were bought out by International Paper. Have you noticed that their stuff is a little harder to use now? Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html