Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kodak's exact wording was "due to significantly decreased sales volumes". Marty On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know exactly why Kodak discontinued Tri-X Pro rollfilm, except > that in the discontinuation notice they said demand had dropped > significantly. ?I always preferred Tri-X 400 too and thought it was > very poor marketing that two dissimilar films could have confusingly > similar names. ?But Kodak also does that with T-Max and T-Max RS > developers and a number of other products. > > Marty > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > wrote: >> Tri-X PRO has nothing to do with Tri-X, except both are from Kodak :-) >> >> I used ~10 rolls. It's pretty good, but I like TMY-2 better, and Tri-X >> better still. >> >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Pasvorn Boonmark <pasvorn at >> boonmark.net>wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Tri-X Pro rollfilm has recently been discontinued too. ?I will miss >>> > 220 - it was nice to be able to get twice as many shots. ?I won't miss >>> > getting it onto the reels to develop it, something I always found a >>> > little tricky. >>> > >>> > Marty >>> > >>> > >>> Do you know the reason behind the Tri-X Pro discontinue? >>> I still have some in my refrigerator. ?These are 220 and rated at ISO >>> 320. >>> >>> I am not that impress, except that I have double the shots. :) >>> Somehow, I like the non-Pro better. >>> >>> -Pasvorn >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < >> http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> >> // portfolio: <http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/PICS/AnotherCalifornia2> >> // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> >> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all >> previous >> replies in your msgs. ] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >