Re: [Leica] EFKE

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Check this site for the address   for the manufacturer- might be able to buy
direct...
http://www.acecam.com/e-europe.html

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: [Leica] EFKE


> At 10:55 AM 7/21/01 -0400, Mike Durling wrote:
> >I've asked Erwin and I will ask here again, does anybody have any
experience
> >with the Efke films?  I heard there was some quality-control problems but
I
> >never talked to anyone who actually used these films.  You have to buy a
lot
> >to make ordering from Germany worthwhile.y
>
> EFKE is Croatian, not German.  It is magnificent film, being an
incarnation
> of the vaunted ADOX formulation of 1950 -- in the early 1950's, ADOX was a
> miracle emulsion, primarily used by higher-end 35mm professionals and
> advanced amatuers, especially Leica and Contax users.  The film was
> developed and made by the firm of Dr C Schleussner Fotowerke in Frankfurt;
> Messrs Schleussner claimed a heritage back to the 1850's and contended
that
> they were the oldest photographic company in Germany, neatly avoiding the
> corporate theft which caused Voigtländer to move from Austria to
> Braunschweig late in that decade.  Schleussner was purchased by DuPont at
> some point and, twenty years later, DuPont licensed Fotokemika Zagreb to
> make the ADOX formulations under the EFKE brand.
>
> Fotokemika Zagreb has had most uneven marketing practices in the US and
has
> recently had their production interrupted while they moved to a new and
> larger plant outside of Zagreb.
>
> Look you, this is not a T-grain film, but it is a pleasant, foregiving
> emulsion which produces a lot of shadow detail and which doesn't block up
> very easily.
>
> AND they still make 620 and 127 film!
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
>
>