Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] False alarm (Agfa)
From: sam at osheaven.net (Sam)
Date: Thu Apr 15 14:09:28 2004
References: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0404151236160.112@hfb-ore2.hfstud.uio.no> <407EA86E.8090501@osheaven.net> <Pine.WNT.4.58.0404152309480.2500@hfb-ore2.hfstud.uio.no>

Who makes their film??? I recently bought a roll of gray market Fuji 
Neopan 400 and it was labeled as make in Germany. Don't tell me Agfa's 
film is made in Japan  :)

Sam S



Daniel Ridings wrote:

>They don't make the stuff either ...
>
>This is a wierd story. I have from two separate official
>Agfa sources:
>
>1) Production will continue until the end of the year
>2) Sales will then continue from the piled up stocks
>
>The other source:
>
>Denies it all.
>
>Both are official sources.
>
>Hmmmm
>
>Daniel
>
>On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Sam wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I checked with Agfa USA and they have no plans to drop 120 film of any kind.
>>
>>Sam S
>>
>>
>>Daniel Ridings wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>It turns out that only Sweden (well, possibly other
>>>countries too) is pulling all 120 film from Agfa from their
>>>stock.
>>>
>>>But Agfa is not discontinuing it and it will still be
>>>offered in Germany (information from Agfa directly).
>>>
>>>The US might do better. Even a small part of the market can
>>>be a lot of rolls of film :)
>>>
>>>Daniel
>>>
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