Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The Quality of Kodak
From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:45:08 -0800

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!
> 
> 
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