Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Arrggghhh!!! I was just thinking of going into large format - I guess my MF tools will be covered by afordable digital backs in a year or two - but Arrggghhh! I will need to fill my frezzer with RSX II and Scala - will Fuji and Kodak treat you who favors these film-brands the same way. It is a cruel world - I have been wanting a Leica since it was called M4 and now a couple of years ago - after over twenty years of waiting - I finally got one - a M6 and it 100 % right in handling like no other camera I have ever used - I even like the limitations of film as a part of the challange og picture making - oh my ... am I being an anachronism now - and I have only just passed 40 Tim Atherton wrote: >>Nathan - Not wanting to sound like an all-Agfa guy but have you tried >>the RSX II slide 100 iso film. >> >> >> > >Don't hold your breath on the RSX II for too long. Agfa has just >discontinued it in sheet sizes (in fact they have just discontinued ALL >sheet film colour and B&W - they are out of the LF film business now). There >is a good chance they will be going the same way with smaller sizes in the >future. When I spoke to Agfa HQ in Belgium about the sheet film I asked them >about the future of smaller film sizes - basically they wouldn't commit to >it's future being guaranteed.... basically they said with a film product if >sales drop below a certain level, they will just discontinue it. > >tim > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html