.............Agfa had predicted a several year supply and it vanished
in more
like several months! There may not be many users of these slow films,
but
they are true devotees to them. Like Donald I have a few rolls in the
freezer and am contemplating placing a rather large order for Kodachrome
25
and freezing it. Kodak is _claiming_ what happened to Agfa won't happen
to
them . . . but who knows...........
Hi John,
I'd look for the same scene with K25 stock being sold quickly as
with
the Agfa 25.
Kodak still has aerial Panatomic-X in their catalogue. I've got a
1000 ft.
roll of 5 inch width, very thin base, that I cut down for large format.
I don't
think it's an easy chore to cut and spool this for roll film or to cut
and sprochet
for 35mm. It's really a job for the professional industry. Maybe
Eastern
Europe could do it. However, Kodak must still have patents on a still
available film. Plus with the market for silver based films and papers
sliding across the board, it's doubtful smaller manufacturers than Kodak
would be interested in producing and marketing a slow speed black and
white film. I hope I'm wrong here, however. But the big picture does
not
look good with a large number of the remaining serious amateur and
the very few remaining professional photographers who even shoot black
and white
film or are skilled in the traditional darkroom. Face it, as the
remaining
workers are largely older and younger people with an interest in still
photography have the option of the new, I don't have to tell you,
digital,
the choices of silver based black and white films are lessening.
For roll film and 35mm, the game is almost over. Techpan remains,
but it was not originally designed as a continuous tone film, but rather
as a high contrast film. It's tonality is different than films like
Agfa's
APX 25 or Kodak's Panatomic-X.
Cheers,
Rich Lahrson
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