[Leica] Bringing back film from Kodak archieve

Mark Kronquist mak at teleport.com
Wed Oct 3 18:56:49 PDT 2018


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:
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> 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.
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
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> 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:
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>    Hi Folks:
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>    I'm down to my last three rolls of my beloved Kodak Plus-X film.
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>    Can anyone recommend an Ilford film which is similar to Plus-X... 
>    perhaps FP4?
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>    Thanks,
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>    Jim Hemenway - still using film, but saving my pennies for the new 
>    Pentax full frame,
>    hopefully before my expiration date.
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