Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 10:20 PM 9/27/00 -0600, Jeff S wrote: > >I hope you weren't overly fond of Tmax 100 in 4x5 Readyloads either! For > >now, it seems to be out of production. It was Kodak's ONLY b&w Readyload > >film. > > > >Jeff Segawa > > No, I hated them. I really dislike those Kodak double sided Readyloads. It > is easy to fog the film as they don't close securely I've found. You have > to really really be careful when using them and then you still get some fog > hits! Maybe I got a bad batch but after an episode or two with end fog and > being very careful to do things correctly, I gave up. I'll stick to Fuji > Quickloads which, in all of the years they have been out and the hundreds > and hundreds of Quickloads that I've used, I have not had a single problem. > > So I really don't care what Kodak does with their Readyloads... Me neither. I do wish that we had a better selection of BW films in Quickloads. Polaroid 55 can be rather limiting, with its slow speed and narrow lattitude. Fuji BW is so expensive...