[pure-silver] catching up II (was Re: Re: Adox)

The film is Agfa microfilm, spooled for me by Tura when they were still in business, and edge-marked by them as "Pan Line." The next batch will be spooled here and edge-marked "Bluefire Police."
It is well suited to pictorial photography when paired with a suitable developer.
It is not sold as Adox, but as Bluefire Police. You are correct that it is bad business to confuse customers.

David Foy

Ryuji Suzuki wrote: 
From: "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Adox
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:08:45 -0400

Anyone heard of this company called Adox? 

I think it's a bad business decision on them to confuse market and
potential users. Current b&w silver-halide photographers are not that
naive as to believe the name means the same Adox technology.

Their main product seems to be a respooled "line film" type graphic
art film, for which they provide very little information. It says
"single thin, hard, monodisperse ultra-fine grained" but if this is
indeed true (plausible, for line film emulsion) it's clearly different
from old Adox film, and also such single thin hard monodisperse
emulsion is unsuitable for pictorial in-camera negative
applications. If they have enough technology to make such emulsion, I
don't understand why they don't extend it to make fine medium speed
pictorial film. Emulsion part is not that difficult. High quality
multilayer coating, drying and spooling in total darkness are the
problem.

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