[Leica] FujiFilm discontinues some films.....

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Surfactants that are also highly anti-static are only required for
> rollfilm, so they use other cheaper surfactants with the 1600, which
> has only ever been available in 135 to my knowledge - this also
> explains why 135 Neopan 400 will continue to be available.  Acros is
> newer; by the time it was formulated PFOS's days were numbered, even
> though it had not been banned outright.  So it was made with a
> different agent from the start, it seems.  The fluorine peak that I
> saw when I examined 120 Neopan 400 by mass spectroscopy did not occur
> even with the first batches of 120 Acros.  But it seems likely that
> reformulating 120 Neopan 400 without the PFOS would be uneconomic.
> 
> It's a shame; it was always my standard 120 B&W film.
> 
> Marty


I used Tri X pro 320 in 220 the film was not really as good as Neopan but
Neopan didn't come in 220 and I can rock on roll with 24 on a roll. Not 12.


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Mark William Rabiner