Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I asked our Kodak rep back when it was discontinued. If you remember, they didn't announce that the Ektar 25 was going until it was pretty much gone, so there was no real opportunity to stock up. I needed some for a project I was doing then and couldn't find it. He had several reasons.First, it was supposedly a little different/more difficult to manufacture than some of the other films,had a slightly shorter shelf life and was only made intermittently, in moderate sized batches. Second, the demand for ASA25 film was fairly small., even with the quality of Ektar. Third, it had a very narrow latitude, much like slide film, and he said the number of complaints about the film being "off", (when what was really off was the exposure) was amazing. With all its problems, they (whoever they are) just decided to let it die, and he said that Kokak got relatively few complaints or questions about its disappearance. I suspect that this is the way a lot of film products will disappear in the future- some bean counter will just decide not to produce the next batch and that will be it. Allen >Michiel Fokkema wrote: > >>Ektar 25 was really great. No grain at all. Never understood why it >>was discontinued. > > >You got that right. I shot a number of static antique aircraft at >an air show years ago, and if you blow up the negative enough, you >could read the serial numbers off the engines. I really miss Ektar >25. > >Randy Holst >Boise, Idaho > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information