Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Readyloads <OT>
From: "Ken Iisaka" <ken@iisaka.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:45:50 -0700
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> At 10:20 PM 9/27/00 -0600, Jeff S wrote:
> >I hope you weren't overly fond of Tmax 100 in 4x5 Readyloads either! For
> >now, it seems to be out of production. It was Kodak's ONLY b&w Readyload
> >film.
> >
> >Jeff Segawa
>
> No, I hated them. I really dislike those Kodak double sided Readyloads. It
> is easy to fog the film as they don't close securely I've found. You have
> to really really be careful when using them and then you still get some
fog
> hits! Maybe I got a bad batch but after an episode or two with end fog and
> being very careful to do things correctly, I gave up. I'll stick to Fuji
> Quickloads which, in all of the years they have been out and the hundreds
> and hundreds of Quickloads that I've used, I have not had a single
problem.
>
> So I really don't care what Kodak does with their Readyloads...

Me neither.  I do wish that we had a better selection of BW films in
Quickloads.  Polaroid 55 can be rather limiting, with its slow speed and
narrow lattitude.  Fuji BW is so expensive...

In reply to: Message from Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@csd.uwm.edu> (Re: [Leica] Leitz glass and APX 25)
Message from Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com> ([Leica] Re: Readyloads <OT>)