Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/07

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Subject: [Leica] my favorite film....
From: yup at pacbell.net (doug kim)
Date: Fri Oct 7 15:18:11 2005

that's definitely something like good news. where did you find this news?

doug

On 10/7/05 2:59 PM, "feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:

> It appears that AGFA is stopping manufacture of all 120 films.
> APX100 and APX400 will live on in 135.
> 
> feli
> 
> On Oct 7, 2005, at 2:42 PM, doug kim wrote:
> 
>> 
>> so just chatted with the guy at the film counter at samy's about
>> how my
>> favorite film is getting harder and harder to find: agfa APX. we
>> were both
>> distraught that it would soon be disappearing.
>> 
>> rumors about the ill health of agfa have been going around for some
>> time.
>> 
>> its like when the company that made the pen that charles schultz
>> used to
>> draw the  peanuts with went out of business, he bought their entire
>> stock
>> and did not  run out before he passed away. he said in an interview
>> that if
>> he did run out, he would probably stop drawing.
>> 
>> i shoot digital more and more but i do not love it and certainly
>> won't be as
>> passionate about it as i am about film.
>> 
>> give picasso photoshop cs and i will still want to see his paintings.
>> 
>> this sucks and i'm bummed.
>> 
>> doug
>> 
>> -- 
>> doug kim
>> http://www.ricecracker.net/
>> 
>> 
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