Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 22/7/01 1:36 PM, Dan Post at dpost@triad.rr.com wrote: > Pablo- > Do a search on the web for "EFKE film"- when I did, I got loads of sites, > including Marc's! There were a couple that had development times for the > EFKE film, with different modern developers, though I didn't bookmark them > since I haven't any of the film! > Hasta la vista! > Dan Post > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pablo Kolodny" <pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] EFKE > > >> on 21/7/01 12:52 PM, Marc James Small at msmall@roanoke.infi.net wrote: >> >>> EFKE is Croatian, not German. It is magnificent film, being an > incarnation >>> of the vaunted ADOX formulation of 1950 -- in the early 1950's, ADOX was > a >>> miracle emulsion, primarily used by higher-end 35mm professionals and >>> advanced amatuers, especially Leica and Contax users. The film was >>> developed and made by the firm of Dr C Schleussner Fotowerke in > Frankfurt; >>> Messrs Schleussner claimed a heritage back to the 1850's and contended > that >>> they were the oldest photographic company in Germany, neatly avoiding > the >>> corporate theft which caused Voigtländer to move from Austria to >>> Braunschweig late in that decade. Schleussner was purchased by DuPont > at >>> some point and, twenty years later, DuPont licensed Fotokemika Zagreb to >>> make the ADOX formulations under the EFKE brand. >>> >>> Fotokemika Zagreb has had most uneven marketing practices in the US and > has >>> recently had their production interrupted while they moved to a new and >>> larger plant outside of Zagreb. >>> >>> Look you, this is not a T-grain film, but it is a pleasant, foregiving >>> emulsion which produces a lot of shadow detail and which doesn't block > up >>> very easily. >>> >>> AND they still make 620 and 127 film! >>> >>> Marc >> >> Marc, >> >> Actually I've just bought a 20 127 rolls of that film. >> I was needing that film to load my beauty: a Verascope Stereo camera circa >> 1910 in great working condition and also cosmetically speaking. >> Originally the camera was coming with a plate film holder to hold 12 > plates >> of 45x11 mm. I was about cutting off some 120 roll film but the other day > I >> got from a man in Buenos Aires a 127 roll film holder from the same >> Verascope brand hoping to make my life easier. >> At this point I was wondering about developing times for the Efke film >> assuming that maybe the film package is not coming with anything else than >> roll film packed the best they can. >> Well, maybe someone out there let me know where I can find out the >> processing times to allow me start with my Stereo project up. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Pablo >> >> > > Gracias Dan!! Already searched and found it.... Pablo