After wasting a couple of months in hospital, I had to check up how things are going on the field of special photo materials in Moscow - while I was absent, no one in my lab thought about stocking anything, of course 
The results are very pleasing: a small enterprise Fomos (Moscow Photomaterials) is literally thriving, that's what I bought from them yesterday for our purposes:
FT-41MD sheet film, lith type, ortochromatic, gamma=4, ASA 4 sensitivity, strong anti-halation layer, Dmax about 4 - 100 30*40cm sheets, about $50
MZ-3 sheet positive film, unsensibilized, gamma=2.3, ASA 4, no anti-halo layer, Dmax about 3, 50 13*18cm sheets, about $12
Mikrat-500 microfilming/copywork/photomicrography film, 35 mm perfed, isopanchromatic, ASA 6, gamma=2.5, resolving 500 lpm on 1:1000 contrast, strong anti-halo, Dmax about 3, 2 rolls 50m each, about $50
The quality of films and their QC are excellent - every sheet is wrapped in its own paper sheath, the dimensions are perfect and the films are made on German-imported base - thin and clear.
And that's not their full assortment, they make also many other films in small batches, including aerial films. If this is how the film death looks, I would love to die that way I even doubt that things are going this good anywhere abroad. And they still make the plates for electron microphotography, imagine that! But personally I switched there to FT-41 film
Cheers from Moscow,
Zhenya
The results are very pleasing: a small enterprise Fomos (Moscow Photomaterials) is literally thriving, that's what I bought from them yesterday for our purposes:
FT-41MD sheet film, lith type, ortochromatic, gamma=4, ASA 4 sensitivity, strong anti-halation layer, Dmax about 4 - 100 30*40cm sheets, about $50
MZ-3 sheet positive film, unsensibilized, gamma=2.3, ASA 4, no anti-halo layer, Dmax about 3, 50 13*18cm sheets, about $12
Mikrat-500 microfilming/copywork/photomicrography film, 35 mm perfed, isopanchromatic, ASA 6, gamma=2.5, resolving 500 lpm on 1:1000 contrast, strong anti-halo, Dmax about 3, 2 rolls 50m each, about $50
The quality of films and their QC are excellent - every sheet is wrapped in its own paper sheath, the dimensions are perfect and the films are made on German-imported base - thin and clear.
And that's not their full assortment, they make also many other films in small batches, including aerial films. If this is how the film death looks, I would love to die that way
I even doubt that things are going this good anywhere abroad. And they still make the plates for electron microphotography, imagine that! But personally I switched there to FT-41 film Cheers from Moscow,
Zhenya
