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I also do not like Ilford papers much as it seems that it just lacks silver and the VC stuff just doesn't tone well or do anything well to be honest. I have tried a few of the papers and never rally liked it.
Maybe so but I do hope I don't have to ask you for advice! I have tryed Ilford in a bad nordic light conditions and it won't work. Got nothing in the shadow aria! If I had been living in California somewhere than it would work as it does here too during the summer!You are really losing any credibility you might have had with these comments.
watch out with statements like this you could be called for "anti British".
UN;
Just FYI, I have a few friends in Sweden and Finland who use Ilford films among others and like them.
PE
Now we just need some companies to start making 400 speed film for LF to give Ilford a run for the money and get more products on the market.
The comment about Ilford lacking soul. Horseshit. If Sam Cooke, Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett had ever been black and white film enthusiasts, they would have used Ilford.
...If I had been living in California somewhere than it would work as it does here too during the summer!...just don't work when exposed for a long time in bad light conditions. And the reciprocity table is a joke...
Well, since Ron's years at KRL and my amateur experience haven't helped, and you're convinced that even the Howard Bond reciprocity table won't work, perhaps it's time you switched to 8x10 Acros:Maybe so but, they might not use the film at dark places as I do or late evenings which is your nights at Rochester!
If you are out during the regular daytime the film works well so as when it's sunny or during the summer, it's all depens when you are out. Somethimes I got as much as 2 or more minits to expose and that reciprocity table doesn't work at all...I drive 8x10 I cant afford to fail it's expencive...
Well, since Ron's years at KRL and my amateur experience haven't helped, and you're convinced that even the Howard Bond reciprocity table won't work, perhaps it's time you switched to 8x10 Acros:
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Fuji states no reciprocity correction is necessary for exposures up to 120 seconds, and a 1/2 stop increase is required for exposures from 120 to 1,000 seconds. Please establish a usable EI and development time at normal light levels before telling us Fuji doesn't know what it's talking about either!
That is correct sir!Maybe he is using the film where the sun don't shine.
PE
Maybe so but, they might not use the film at dark places as I do or late evenings which is your nights at Rochester!
I have tryed Ilford in a bad nordic light conditions and it won't work. Got nothing in the shadow aria!
I notice you dont have any pictures posted in your gallery here. It would be excellent to see some of your prints - just some scans posted here would be fine. It maybe not the best way to see the excellent results you get with your prodcuts of choice, but it may show us all why you are so committed to using anything non-ilford.
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Actually I do time to time and just did it if you go back one page but also I pick them out as it's allways goes together with something I wrote so you must have miss it.
Weren't there some issues in stocking up on Forte films? I think I read where even with it being in cold storage the film had a tendency to fog over time. So stocking up with a 5 year supply wouldn't seem feasible. I was told to buy only what you will use in the next year. Can anyone confirm this?
Not everything is lost yet. We got a telephone call yesterday when I was in Germany about an attempt by Kentmere to look at the financial situation by Forte and check if there are some additional mutual interests for Kentmere to sell the P.W. papers and maybe some film in the future.
We will see what is going to happen next week.
I wish this to be true as I love the forte warmtone paper! I would buy it over Ilfords warmtone any day! Fingers crossed and GO Kentmere!
I am so greatfull for FOMA and Kentmere I tell you that! I also do not like Ilford papers much as it seems that it just lacks silver and the VC stuff just doesn't tone well or do anything well to be honest. I have tried a few of the papers and never rally liked it. I switched to Forte a while back and really liked the paper, now that it is gone FOMA, Kentmere, Fomeika and the new Russian paper will be the ones I will try.
If Fuji would only release their Neopan 400 in sheet film in 4x5 and up that would be something.
Does anyone know if it is more costly to make sheet film than roll film? I know they offer ACROS 100 up to 8x10 but never seen the 400 speed offered in the sheet film sizes.
Now we just need some companies to start making 400 speed film for LF to give Ilford a run for the money and get more products on the market.
uraniumnitrate.
I assume that you must be a major customer of Forte for you to be sent a personal letter on its closure.
In other words are you a wholesaler of the product or at least a major customer in some other way? Otherwise if you are a normal retail customer and there are thousands of those then I can't work out why you got a personal letter. I and many on this site are retail customers of Ilford, Fuji etc but we wouldn't get a personal letter telling us of Ilford's or Fuji's closure.
I think it reasonable to assume that other major wholesale customers will have been sent the same letter as you received. Such customers include, I believe, Silverprint and possibly Retrographic in the U.K. so we might see confirmation from say Silverprint or another source.
pentaxuser
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