Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:40 AM 2/23/2005, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >The flip side would be which film would I not mind seeing go. >Efke is right there next to Lucky brand. >S. Dimitrov Kodak owns 20% of Lucky film. It is a HUGE profit for Kodak and probably will help keep the Kodak B&W films such as Tri-X alive for a long time to come. Even though I use and like Efke films, my favorites over Efke, is Agfa APX-100, Tri-X, and Plus-X. My overall most used film is Velvia. So as long as one of, Agfa, Kodak, and Ilford (FP4), continue to make B&W emulsions, I really don't care that much about Efke films. The exception being, I like Efke 25, which is very close to APX-25 and KB14, neither of which is available now. There are several small B&W film makers around. The Adox name is coming back as well. That was my favorite film during the 50's and 60's - Adox KB14/R14 and KB21/R21, along with 4x5 Super-XX and Tri-X. Thanks to Lucky for helping to float Kodak's film boat. It cost Kodak $100mil, but the dividends and technology licensing return is immense. JB