Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fomapan
From: Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 19:15:19 -0900

on 8/7/02 4:38 PM, Mark Rabiner at mark@markrabiner.com wrote:

> Mike Durling wrote:
>> 
>> Foma's home page is at http://www.foma.cz/  I buy mine from
>> www.fotoimpex.de  They also sell Efke and a couple of interesting
>> papers.  Some of the website is in English but the PDF catalog is in
>> German.  Its pretty easy to figure out.  They readily answer questions
>> by email.
>> 
>> I have shot a lot of the Foma 400.  Its an old technology film, some say
>> like Super-XX.  Its a little grainier than other 400 films.  I just shot
>> some of the 200.  That is the T-grain stuff that got Kodak's goat.  I
>> was really impressed with the quality.  Really nice tones and moderately
>> fine grain.  I shot a little of the 100 when I was in Europe, but I have
>> a lot to print from that trip and have only printed one or two from that
>> roll.
>> <Snip> 
> 
> Isn't Foma what everybody was on in Brave New World? Or was that 1984?
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner

That was SOMA  Foma was the film stock used to shoot the movie version

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