Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/23

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Subject: [Leica] APX & Fomapan at Freestyle
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Thu Mar 23 16:33:43 2006
 
"Arche, Harvey" <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org> writes:

> I just ordered 10 rolls each of  APX  100 & Fomapan 200 from 
> Freestyle.The sales guy on the phone says they ordered a half 
> million rolls of APX
> just before Agfa went belly up. The interesting thing is that he 
> swearsthe Arista II line of films is the exactly the same stock 
> with different
> packaging, and a buck per roll cheaper. The same deal with the Fomapan
> line, which Freestyle packages as Arista.edu.
> 
> Is this too good to be true?
> 

Quite possible. In Canada, Amplis (Agfa official Dist.) sold a German made 
film called 'Silver Tone'. Packaging looks just like Agfa. I picked up one 
roll to try it out which may not happen until I'm on the road in Eastern 
Canada next week.

Regards,

Greg