[Leica] Jeffery PAW week 23 - Cleanup Man

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Following your blog with much interest. Maybe I'll try the pyro  
myself one day.
Thanks for sharing,
Philippe



Op 24-jun-06, om 16:20 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven:

> I've only done Foma 200 in pyro, and it it a great combination:
>
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/2006/06/fomapan-200-creative-film-in-pmk- 
> pyro.html
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of  
> Marty
> Deveney
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> Subject: [Leica] Jeffery PAW week 23 - Cleanup Man
>
>
> Mike is absolutely right: various third party sellers definitely  
> change
> sourceds from time to time.
>
> www.fortefilm.com now seems to re-direct to J&C Photo, though they  
> used to
> have their own website.  Their film and paper is manufactured in Vac,
> Hungary.
>
> Foma www.foma.cz/ is manufactured in Hradec Kr?lov?, Czech Republic.
>
> Efke films www.efkefilm.com/ used to be made in Zagreb, Croatia,  
> but the
> factory moved to Samobor.  These films were (are?) made using the same
> antiquated machinery and the same formulas that the Adox films were  
> made
> with in the 1950s and 60s.
>
> The most confusing thing is that some re-packagers like Adox  
> (trademark
> owned by Fotoimpex, I think) sell Ekfe as their slow films, but what
> appeared to be Ilford Pan 100 and Pan 400 (or maybe FP4 and HP5 -  
> NOT the
> 'plus' versions) as some of their faster films.
>
> The best bet with the third party films is to buy up big (they are  
> cheap,
> after all) and to test the first couple of rolls of a new batch.
>
> How do the 35mm Foma and Forte films look in pyro Jeffery?  I've  
> used MF and
> LF films by these manufacturers in pyro developers before, but  
> never in
> 35mm.  As I recall, Fortepan 200 can be amazingly grainy in  
> pyrocatechol
> developers, but that may be because of the very high pH and sudden
> associated changes.  Let us know, please.
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> Forte is made in Hungary, Foma in the Czech Republic, and Efke in
> Croatia.  To make things confusing they all sell under various private
> labels as well as their own.  Some of these private brands have  
> multiple
> sources too.  I can't keep them straight either ;>)
>
> Mike D
>
> Jeffery Smith wrote:
>> Strange that the Arista, Paterson, Forte, Classic, and Bergger are  
>> all
>> the same emulsion but have some very different prices. Is the Foma
>> also the same emulsion as all of these?
>
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