[Leica] Film availability

Don Dory don.dory at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 11:07:51 PST 2021


Just a suggestion from another hobby is to buy in quantity and stack it
deep.  So figure out what your needs are and buy that quantity.  You might
have to dedicate a freezer.  Dry chemistry keeps a long time if kept cool
and dry.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 1:04 PM Jeffery Smith via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I attempted to try out a variety of Adox lower ISO films. I was able to
> get several CMS films and HR-50, but not Silvermax. The next time I looked
> at BHPhoto and Freestyle, all three of them have been discontinued (at
> least in the United States). I'm still feeling the effects of Kodak
> discontinuing Panatomic-X, Plus-X, and Verichrome Pan. I hate getting
> smitten with a film and developer only to find the film is extinct. I had
> best stick to the most often used films (as evidenced by their mention when
> images are posted). I feel safe with Tri-X and HP5+, and hope that FP4+,
> Acros, Delta 100, and TMax100 are relatively safe, though I'm not
> absolutely positive about TMax100.
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> > On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:40 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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> > Thanks, Don! By coincidence, I just bought some Adox film from
> Fotoimpex.de.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
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> > Nathan Wajsman
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> >> On 21 Jan 2021, at 18:14, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> While our film shooters probably know this the following link was
> accurate
> >> for film availability as of November:
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographic_films
> >>
> >> All the best.
> >>
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