[pure-silver] Re: Old films - new life? New 127 color film. more...

Richard -
Normally I would agree about the "Police" films, but check the link beow for a 35x enlargement. How much of this is hype and how much reality? It seems as if it might be fun to find out! 

http://www.frugalphotographer.com/Extreme-Enlargement.htm

-Bill


On Jan 28, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
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Subject: [pure-silver] Old films - new life? New 127 color film. more...
I was unaware of this company - no competition for the Great Yellow Father (I vote "yes" to Kodak products - they haven't deserted me and gone the way of Agfachrome - but that's another issue). This is one of the companies that appears to be in it for the love of it, and will stay in the game as long as they can live on the income. I got the link courtesy of another photo mailing list, and thought I'd pass it on in case it was not known here. (I intend to try both the Murano 160 color film in 127 for my Yashica 44 (that I thought I'd never use again) and the "Police" B&W hi-res film. (The latter sounds like a possible replacement for Kodak's Fine-Grain Positive - which was a negative film - with the added benefits of being panchromatic and having reasonable speed - EI 80, as opposed to EI 1.2.) 

-Bill

http://www.frugalphotographer.com/index.htm
I believe Fine Grain Release Positive is still available but you might have to buy a 1000 foot roll. It is used for making mattes and other special effects as well as B&W prints. The slow speed is an advantage for its intended purpose of making projection transparencies of B&W negatives. Kodak used to give its speed as being approximately the same as Kodabromide Grade-2. The contrast can be varied by choice of developer. For making slides it has the advantage of having a completely clear support and being extremely fine grain compared to any negative film. In addition, it can be handled under a normal safelight. The so called police films are intended for surveillance and can be pretty grainy stuff. 


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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