400 ASA film in 120 size

Dusty Negative · Sep 8, 2019

abruzzi said:
Think of it like quantum indeterminacy. Either UFX400 is Kentmere 400 or it isn’t. Currently it exists in both states, some people buy one, some buy the other, liking the results they got from the one they bought. Some people believe they are the same, and buy either, but not having certainty makes them potentially separate products. Once official word leaks that they are the same, the wave function collapses, and the market sees them as the same, and interchangeable. That effectively shrinks the market for both Kentmere and UFX.

Clearly, if I peeked and forced the indeterminate box into a determinate state of UFX here in Virginia, then its entangled pair in the UK would also collapse to UFX. Yet, it is known that UFX has never been detected in the UK. Ergo, UFX *CANNOT BE* Kentmere.

We must, alas, return and question our first principles. The First Cause, the Unmoved Mover, of UFX remains sadly unknown.

Sirius Glass · Sep 8, 2019

abruzzi said:
Think of it like quantum indeterminacy. Either UFX400 is Kentmere 400 or it isn’t. Currently it exists in both states, some people buy one, some buy the other, liking the results they got from the one they bought. Some people believe they are the same, and buy either, but not having certainty makes them potentially separate products. Once official word leaks that they are the same, the wave function collapses, and the market sees them as the same, and interchangeable. That effectively shrinks the market for both Kentmere and UFX.

Some like me buy neither nor do we care a wit, and our lives are better for it. Kodak, Ilford and occasionally Rollei IR 400 does it for me. The speculation in threads like this are merely entertainment. Time to move on.

400 ASA film in 120 size

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