Fuji Acros Returns in Autumn with Acros II in 35mm & 120

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redrockcoulee

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Fuji states that it is excellent for long exposures and night photography. It may be awhile before I buy it, because I bought some right when the announcement of discontinued came out plus a project I was working on I ended up shooting quite a bit less.

I hope that this new stuff continues their practice of pricing below Ilford and Kodak, in Canada anyways for all but 4X5 which was way more expensive .
 

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The price of Fuji products in Canada probably has little to do with Fuji themselves. The photographic distributors in Canada are expensive!
Always glad to hear about new/revived product that meets people's needs.
 

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Seems like this should be closer to the top w/ more than 700 views to me. Great news.

I stocked up on "Acros I", but will definitely get some of this to try out. Not just reciprocity, but the spectral response also was an important feature of original acros. Will look for datasheet when it becomes available....
 

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Initially it is only to be released in Japan. Not sure how long it will take to be carried by the regular supply chains here in the US.
So how will we get it ? I'm ready NOW!
 

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It will be good to compare, I still have some jealously guarded stock of the old stuff. Can Neopan 400 (Presto) be next?
 

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It will be good to compare, I still have some jealously guarded stock of the old stuff. Can Neopan 400 (Presto) be next?

Good GOD I hope so...and as long as it's fantasy time, the Neopan 1600, too. Just stupendously beautiful film.
 

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They still aggressively hunt whales.

• Do we know if whale products went into this film? Then or now? If not, then it's irresponsible to bring it up and imply it is.

• As odious as the practice is, it's not really the forum to bring up political campaigns.
 

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Andrew has long and deep connections with Japan, goes there regularly, and lived there for a long time. His reference was in response to paulbarden's "guess" that the reformulation was made necessary in order to find an alternative to whale cartilage.
Seems to be on (photographic) point.
 

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Dear Fuji, please bring back PLUS-X
 

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Original is nice. Ilford and mostly Kodak get my negative film business. I have a lot of Acros 120. I can use Delta and TMAX no problem. Ilford and Foma are important to me because of paper. Fuji mentions film being used in social media. Seems silly to shoot fill for Facebook.
 

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• Do we know if whale products went into this film? Then or now? If not, then it's irresponsible to bring it up and imply it is.

• As odious as the practice is, it's not really the forum to bring up political campaigns.

I didn't bring it up.
 

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I won't be interested until it comes back in 8 x10
I'm still kicking myself for not picking up a box when I was over there a couple years ago. The shop I was in had one box in stock.
 

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Thanks, ericdan, for confirmation of the actual Fuji announcement. We need you and others in Japan to be "Our Man In Havana" so to speak.

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They still aggressively hunt whales.

But, what about the thousands of sharks that get their fins cut off every year, and are thrown overboard to drown?
Not cute enough animals I guess and they also sometimes bite people.

Humans aggressively hunt and kill many animals.
Even animals hunt and kill each other.

Not to mention industrialized production of beef and chicken.

Look up whaling sometime, you will realize that there are more than one species, and that many of the smaller types of whales that are being actively used for food(!), are quite abundant. (they shoot these animals in the head with grenades, a better death than many cattle).

At least with the likes of the alaenoptera acutorostrata, it is closely being monitored on the northern hemisphere, so that they do not take out so many animals that the population decreases and cannot recover.
(less than 1% of the estimated total population per year)

I have tasted whale many times, think it taste like liver most of the time, so I am not a fan at all and I could care less if they hunted whale or not.

But, you can get gelatin from many places, I am not even sure they still use such gelatin in film-production?

As for Acros II, sure, I will have a go at it.
Still have the freezer full of Acros I and it continues to serve me well.
 
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I hope that this new stuff continues their practice of pricing below Ilford and Kodak, in Canada anyways for all but 4X5 which was way more expensive .

Pricing will be key I guess. I'm quite happy with FP4 and Delta, price it the same or lower and I'll be tempted.
 

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But, you can get gelatin from many places, I am not even sure they still use such gelatin in film-production?

From what I remember Kodak used to use gelatin from pigs as long as they didn't eat mustard greens or something like that. I'm hazy on the specifics or even if it is acutally a story or something someone made up and i believed because I am gulible enough to believe just about anything if it sounds reasonable. Pigs sounds reasonable, they are cute enough, the medical industrial complex has been using pigs for eons for a variety of things and I think Chimera are part piggly wiggly. I guess as long as there isn't an arachnid who can spell ...

I wonder what the Fujifilm haters will say....
probably will be the same as it ever was ...
 
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