Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was the first film I used, as a kid in Japan. I kind of liked it then (I was impressionalbe :) ). But I do remember it being grainy, grainy, grainy. I don't even think they bothered with a 400 film back then. There was a 200 film, I think. There's a guy on the PAW list (that seems to have disappeared) who uses it a lot. He gets it cheap. He comes from, or at least works a lot, in southern Africa (high contrast). He uses Diafine almost exclusively. Probably as much because Diafine is not temperature sensitive as anything else. Rumour has it that Oriental (the makers of Seagull paper) makes b/w film for Fuji. I read it in a review of b/w films in a German magazine lately. I'd have to check my grammar books to be sure. They were referring to Acros and Neopan and I'm not real sure what the subordinate clause was referring to: Acros, Neopan or both. Back in the sixties I used a Fuji developer with the film. It was probably close to D76. Daniel --- Jeffery Smith <jls@runbox.com> wrote: > Try a few old-fashioned developers with it, like Rodinal. > Or Ethol TEC, > You might find some good results. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Eric > Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 9:12 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Re: Fuji Neopan Acros 100 vs. Fuji > Neopan SS 100 > > Jeffery: > > >The Acros costs twice as much. There's gotta be some > difference. > > The Acros is 3.69 vs. 1.99 for the SS. > > But, the US Neopan 400 is 3.99 compared to 2.49 for the > import that's > the > same stuff. > > So the price difference didn't seem to be a big deal to > me. I tried a > few > rolls of the import 400, and as far as I can tell, it's > the same > quality. > So I felt safe getting the import 100. Oh, well. It was > cheap. $40 > for 20 > rolls. I don't use much 100, anyway. If it's that bad, > I can probably > give > it away to somebody. :) > > Thanks for the added info, Tom & Nathan! > > -- > Eric > http://canid.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information