Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/19

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Subject: [Leica] PESO: Two Track Mind
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:36:22 -0500
References: <006301ca1f44$224f4ce0$66ede6a0$@net>, <009701ca1f71$700f8030$502e8090$@net>, <CF563C35-884A-48B3-97E1-A7339E877D2D@usjet.net>

Quoth the Robert Meier :

> That makes it as cheap as bulk loaded Tri-X.  I'll have to try it.
> 


You'll probably want to run snips on every roll just to find what 
you're dealing with.  Had a client bring a bunch of that stuff into 
the lab one time... 9 rolls, seven different emulsions. Apparently 
Freestyle was, at that time, buying up odds and sods and rag-ends of 
things from Gods only know where and loading them out under the house 
label.  (Not seven lots, seven emulsions.  3M, a TMax trial lot, 2 
different Ilford "Field Trial" lots, an Agfa, 2 Ilford Universal, 2 
EK movie films.)  All in the same canisters with the same labels.

They all generated decent images for non-critical use, but I'd have 
hated to try to make them all match for critical work and I wouldn't 
have wanted to do serious work with them...

This was several years back and they may not be doing that any more, 
but I'd still want to be careful....  --


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