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Subject: Re: [Leica] Only in Canada? Pity
From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:37:54 -0500
References: <B6832CE1.CED5%jbcollier@home.com>

B&H listed 50 roll bricks  last time I checked- over the holidays....
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@home.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: [Leica] Only in Canada? Pity


> Purchased from my local dealer and by all accounts sourced from Kodak
Canada
> (or a cunning imitation!). The side of the box reads:
>
> Pro-Pack 50
> TX 135-36
> CAT 199 1249
>
> I must confess I never counted the rolls when I got the box but it is half
> full now and there are 25 rolls left. 2 times 5 equals 10 put down the 0
and
> carry the 1. 2 times 2 equals 4 add to the 0 and get 4. Hmmm, that cannot
be
> right. DUH! The 4 goes beside the 0, so 40. Oops forgot to carry the 1,
41!
> Wait a minute....
>
> John Collier ;-)
>
> > From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
> >
> > Huh?  I have two bricks of TX 35mm right in front of me and they are
both 20
> > (which if I am doing my arithmetic right, is 4 x 5, and there is only
one
> > roll per box ;-).  Who are you buying 50 roll 'bricks' from?
> >
> >> 50 rolls for Tri-X.
> >
> >>> How big is a "brick" of film?
> >
>
>

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