Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I noticed the difference in 73-74. I could no longer get the same print here in the US that I could in the FRG. Even the surfaces have qualitatively deteriorated. S. Dimitrov > From: Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 22:48:45 -0500 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] The Quality of Kodak > > At 03:53 PM 2/8/04 -0600, Jeffery Smith wrote: >> Back when they were making the Retina? Hmmm. The lenses were good, but >> they were Schneider lenses. I thought as early as 1968 that Ilford was >> better B&W film, and Chinese-made Seagull paper and Ilford paper were >> better than Kodak. And then they really decided to get frugal and put >> less and less silver in their paper, and I couldn't get a true black >> from it. > > The reduction in silver content was dictated by the EPA. Ilford and AGFA > were both spared a like fate for some years, though even they did not come > close to the high silver content of the old Warsaw Pact stuff such as ORWO > and Forte. > > Ilford came under the same guidelines as Kodak when they were bought out by > International Paper. Have you noticed that their stuff is a little harder > to use now? > > Marc > > msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html