Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/25

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] B&W Films/Developers
From: timatherton at theedge.ca (Tim Atherton)
Date: Fri Jun 25 15:24:49 2004

> > I
> > believe HP5 is repackaged Efke 400.
>
> Don't think so Chris. There might be something out there that is
> repackaged Efke 400 or Efke 400 might be repackaged HP5 but one of
> Ilford's flagships is hardly a repackaged film from another company.
>


HP5 is HP5 and Efke is Efke

HP5 can (at least in sheet sizes and I think also in rolls) be had more
cheaply as Arista Professional 400 (and FP4 as Arista Pro 125) from
freestylephoto.biz and as Ultrafine 400 and 125 respectively from
Photowarehosue.biz

I get confused with Efke and Forte films (Efke is in Croatia and Forte is in
Hungary), but J&C photo www.jandcphoto.com repackages one of them as J&C
Classic 200 and 400 etc  (and I think Freestyle Photo repackages Forte 200
it as their Arista.Edu 200 or something like that) - I think the rebranded
100 speed films tend to be efke and the 200 and 400 speed films tend to be
Forte (and apparently Forte also makes the very nice Bergger 200, but to
Bergger's specs - it's not quite the same as Forte 200, but very close)



tim


In reply to: Message from daniel.ridings at muspro.uio.no (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] B&W Films/Developers)