Re: [Leica] EFKE

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Pablo-
Do a search on the web for "EFKE film"- when I did, I got loads of sites,
including Marc's! There were a couple that had development times for the
EFKE film, with different modern developers, though I didn't bookmark them
since I haven't any of the film!
Hasta la vista!
Dan Post


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Pablo Kolodny" <pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] EFKE


> on 21/7/01 12:52 PM, Marc James Small at msmall@roanoke.infi.net wrote:
>
> > EFKE is Croatian, not German.  It is magnificent film, being an
incarnation
> > of the vaunted ADOX formulation of 1950 -- in the early 1950's, ADOX was
a
> > miracle emulsion, primarily used by higher-end 35mm professionals and
> > advanced amatuers, especially Leica and Contax users.  The film was
> > developed and made by the firm of Dr C Schleussner Fotowerke in
Frankfurt;
> > Messrs Schleussner claimed a heritage back to the 1850's and contended
that
> > they were the oldest photographic company in Germany, neatly avoiding
the
> > corporate theft which caused Voigtländer to move from Austria to
> > Braunschweig late in that decade.  Schleussner was purchased by DuPont
at
> > some point and, twenty years later, DuPont licensed Fotokemika Zagreb to
> > make the ADOX formulations under the EFKE brand.
> >
> > Fotokemika Zagreb has had most uneven marketing practices in the US and
has
> > recently had their production interrupted while they moved to a new and
> > larger plant outside of Zagreb.
> >
> > Look you, this is not a T-grain film, but it is a pleasant, foregiving
> > emulsion which produces a lot of shadow detail and which doesn't block
up
> > very easily.
> >
> > AND they still make 620 and 127 film!
> >
> > Marc
>
> Marc,
>
> Actually I've just bought a 20 127 rolls of that film.
> I was needing that film to load my beauty: a Verascope Stereo camera circa
> 1910 in great working condition and also cosmetically speaking.
> Originally the camera was coming with a plate film holder to hold 12
plates
> of 45x11 mm. I was about cutting off some 120 roll film but the other day
I
> got from a man in Buenos Aires a 127 roll film holder from the same
> Verascope brand hoping to make my life easier.
> At this point I was wondering about developing times for the Efke film
> assuming that maybe the film package is not coming with anything else than
> roll film packed the best they can.
> Well, maybe someone out there let me know where I can find out the
> processing times to allow me start with my Stereo project up.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Pablo
>
>