Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/10/03

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Subject: [Leica] Bringing back film from Kodak archieve
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 18:56:49 -0700

Aside from Kodachrome the motion picture aerial film folk said a 250000 
order would bring back plus x or pan x aerial.  Would guess same true for 
35. 120. 220 etc. yeah it?s a lot of money for one but for a worldwide 
community easy. Count my order in

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> On Oct 3, 2018, at 4:45 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
> FP4 is light bright and snappy looking than Plus x it?s the shape of the 
> curve not them Kodak amount of development or paper contrast.
> B&H has Delta 100 a tab grain film which is as sharp and grainless as 
> Agfapan 25 was.
> If you liked the look of Plus X I'd shoot Delta 400 which though two stops 
> faster has less grain and as much sharpness but depending on which 
> developer and dilution. The stuff you read on the internet on the old 
> films being better is really dumb stuff. Test it yourself.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
> 
> ?On 10/2/18, 4:28 PM, "LUG on behalf of Jim Hemenway" 
> <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of jim at 
> hemenway.com> wrote:
> 
>    Hi Folks:
> 
>    I'm down to my last three rolls of my beloved Kodak Plus-X film.
> 
>    Can anyone recommend an Ilford film which is similar to Plus-X... 
>    perhaps FP4?
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    Jim Hemenway - still using film, but saving my pennies for the new 
>    Pentax full frame,
>    hopefully before my expiration date.
> 
> 
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