Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:17 AM 10/16/2000 -0500, Mike Johnston wrote: > >This is the big problem with Ilford. At least Kodak--well, the old >Kodak--realized that once photographers had learned a film, all they needed >was a steady supply. With Ilford, unfortunately, loving one of their films >means losing it someday, probably sooner rather than later. Mike I'm not certain of this. Kodak killed Panatomic-X (I still have ONE roll left, refrigerated since '89), while Ilford retained PanF, updating it slightly to PanF+ a few years back. Kodak wanted to kill Tri-X and only kept it because of the outrage; Ilford has retained HP-5/5+ while marketing 400 Delta. (I am old enough to recall HP-3!) Kodak has been most anxious to dump all fibre-based papers, and Ilford has kept producing them. Und so weiter. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!