Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Peruachrome
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:07:22 -0700

At 5:13 PM -0400 6/2/00, Lee, Ken wrote:
>I have a meaningless Friday question.  Does anyone know why Adox designated
>their 35mm films "KB"  -  I used KB14, KB17 and KB21 at various times- and
>the 120 films were "R"  R-14, R-17 and R-21?
>
>Ken
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Jim Brick [SMTP:jimbrick@photoaccess.com]
>> Sent:	Friday, June 02, 2000 12:06 PM
>> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>> Subject:	[Leica] Re:  Peruachrome
>>
>> At 09:49 PM 6/1/00 -0700, Henning J. Wulff wrote:
>> >
>> >It was spelled Peruchrome; made by Perutz. But then, someone in Ecuador
>> >would not necessarily get the straight goods on anything starting with
>> >'Peru..." ;-).
>> >
>> >   *            Henning J. Wulff
>>
>> Many moons ago I used Perutz film. Perutz Perpantic in 120 size. I think I
>> remember it being a slow panchromatic film much like my favorite film...
>> Adox KB14.
>>
>> Jim

Oops...

Pressed the send button too speedily.

The second part of the answer is, of course, 'Rollfilm', which is the same
in English or German.

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