Legacy Pro gone????????

Gritycityflicks · Nov 18, 2010

ahhhhhhhhhhh, just checked on DigitalTruth and almost all of the Legacy Pro film has sold out. It also says that they do not expect any further stock

I was just gonna grab a few tins of bulk 400. Now il have to settle with a big long cry in a darkroom somewhere. If anyone wants to sell some out of their freezer, hint hint

Tom Kershaw · Nov 18, 2010

You can get the 'Legacy Pro' films from Fujifilm in the form of 'Acros 100' and 'Neopan 400'

Tom

wintoid · Nov 18, 2010

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Gritycityflicks · Nov 18, 2010

Thanks Tom but the fact that it was Acros and Neopan film is why im a silly sausage and should have bought more. Getting to shoot Fuji Film for a price that was easier on the pocket. My funds are limited these days and have been shooting expired films and a bulk of Ilford Surveillance. The discovery of Legacy was very refreshing. It was my mistake and should have ordered more the first time round. Oh well, such is life

Jerevan · Nov 18, 2010

There is a bit of Legacy 100 bumping around in the stores in Europe. If you want cheap, are able to use low iso film and roll your own, I think Polypan F is a good bet.

hpulley · Nov 18, 2010

Kentmere 100 and 400 in 100' bulk is pretty cheap. Ilford Pan F, Delta 100, Delta 400 and HP5+ 400 in 30.5m bulk (same company, why the imperial/metric length difference???) are a bit more expensive.

cmacd123 · Nov 19, 2010

I think we all wish we had of bought more of the lagacy pro, I know I went on to the frestyle site one day intending to to order some more only to find all the 400 gone. They still had some of the 100, but I tend to use 400 almost exclusively. the only trace I could find was a few "student packs" of 8X10 paper with two rolls of LP400. That film was a later emulsion than the stuff I bought before.

AS far as the 100ft vs 30.5 meters. it is the same length, but the Kentmere seems to be aimed at the USA market which is almost the only country in the world which has not converted to metric.

michaelbsc · Nov 19, 2010

cmacd123 said:
I think we all wish we had of bought more of the lagacy pro, I know I went on to the frestyle site one day intending to to order some more only to find all the 400 gone. They still had some of the 100, but I tend to use 400 almost exclusively. the only trace I could find was a few "student packs" of 8X10 paper with two rolls of LP400. That film was a later emulsion than the stuff I bought before.

AS far as the 100ft vs 30.5 meters. it is the same length, but the Kentmere seems to be aimed at the USA market which is almost the only country in the world which has not converted to metric.

Almost the only country?

Who, pray tell, is left besides us?

MattKing · Nov 19, 2010

Canada still has this weird melange of metric and non-metric measurement systems - partially due I am sure because of our proximity to the USA.

My impression is that the current Conservative federal government (weights and measures are a federal responsibility) don't like the legislation that mandates metrification, so they don't put much effort into enforcing it. They don't however, want to put any political energy into changing it.

As a result we get strange hybrids - meat that has its price shown per pound on the large shelf sign, whereas the bar code and register tape record the weight in kilograms.

mawz · Nov 20, 2010

MattKing said:
Canada still has this weird melange of metric and non-metric measurement systems - partially due I am sure because of our proximity to the USA.

My impression is that the current Conservative federal government (weights and measures are a federal responsibility) don't like the legislation that mandates metrification, so they don't put much effort into enforcing it. They don't however, want to put any political energy into changing it.

As a result we get strange hybrids - meat that has its price shown per pound on the large shelf sign, whereas the bar code and register tape record the weight in kilograms.

Canada is officially entirely metric and has been for decades but many products are packaged for both US and Canadian distribution and thus get both on the label and many Canadians are still more comfortable with Imperial than metric for some measurements (generally lumber & people) despite having been taught only metric. Many stores still list by the pound even though they have to sell by the kilo. non-enforcement has nothing to do with the current government, it hasn't been a priority since Trudeau retired and likely never will be.

As to Imperial countries, the UK still uses some Imperial measurements last I checked (Speedlimits) and Liberia IIRC uses US measurements for many things.

perkeleellinen · Nov 20, 2010

The UK is going metric by the inch.

Jerevan · Nov 20, 2010

perkeleellinen said:
The UK is going metric by the inch.

Are you still selling England by the pound?

BetterSense · Nov 20, 2010

I need a fine-grained 400 speed film for my half-frame camera so I was shooting exclusively LegacyPro 400 in 35mm for the last year or so. I hate to say it but the film in rodinal really has a distinct look that I like. Now that it's gone, I can't justify buying Neopan 400 when it's not significantly cheaper than bulk Tmax.

MattKing · Nov 20, 2010

mawz said:
Canada is officially entirely metric and has been for decades but many products are packaged for both US and Canadian distribution and thus get both on the label and many Canadians are still more comfortable with Imperial than metric for some measurements (generally lumber & people) despite having been taught only metric. Many stores still list by the pound even though they have to sell by the kilo. non-enforcement has nothing to do with the current government, it hasn't been a priority since Trudeau retired and likely never will be.

As to Imperial countries, the UK still uses some Imperial measurements last I checked (Speedlimits) and Liberia IIRC uses US measurements for many things.

I don't know mawz - it seems to me that the backsliding (Imperial/Avoirdupois instead of metric) has gotten much worse in the last few years.

For quite a while we were at least getting both measurements on store shelves. The metric measurements are now much less common then ten years ago.

wintoid · Nov 21, 2010

Here in the UK, we're using mph for speed, and I use stone/lbs/ounces for body weight, although grammes for food weights usually. Also height in feet/inches, but other things could be in metres. A bit of a mishmash. I grew up using fahrenheit, but now no longer find F useful, and think in C.

perkeleellinen · Nov 21, 2010

My niece is 16, she is a bit more metric than me. I think of large distances and speeds in imperial, small distances in metric. Body weight in imperial, all other weights in metric. I've never understood Fahrenheit (I was born in 1973). My niece also thinks of speed in imperial but all distances in metric, she knows her body weight and height in metric only. So really she's imperial only in terms of mph probably because of the road signs which dominate driving.

michaelbsc · Nov 21, 2010

perkeleellinen said:
My niece is 16, she is a bit more metric than me. I think of large distances and speeds in imperial, small distances in metric. Body weight in imperial, all other weights in metric. I've never understood Fahrenheit (I was born in 1973). My niece also thinks of speed in imperial but all distances in metric, she knows her body weight and height in metric only. So really she's imperial only in terms of mph probably because of the road signs which dominate driving.

Move to the US. We have speed limits in MPH, but nobody cares about them.

perkeleellinen · Nov 21, 2010

People only care about them here when there's a police camera to record them.

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