There are still stores that have the Agfa 25 in stock -- notably one in
Orlando, FL. If you've got to have it, I'd look for a store that carries a
lot of film but doesn't have a strong professional and/or advanced amateur
clientele -- fewer people that would want this film.
But I do indeed miss Panatomic-X!!
Dave
>
> .............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
> tripspud@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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