On 5/17/2011 5:17 PM, Bob Younger wrote:
"......officially paranoid" is 200 rolls...
Yeah, but I am MORE paranoid of explaining a $1000 film bill to SWMBO :)
On May 17, 2011 1:12 PM, "Tim Daneliuk" <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > Last week I mentioned that I'd found a possible candidate to replace my > dearly departed Agfapan APX 100. I've now printed some 645 negs shot on > that film (the smallest format I shoot on 120) at both 8x10 and 11x14. The > results are *VERY* good. The film shows almost no grain whatsoever even at > 11x14, it has beautiful tonal rendering, and holds dynamic range very > nicely. > > This stuff really does act a lot like the old APX. It seems to handle large > Subject Brightness Range much the same way and, if anything, has less > visible grain than the APX. Best of all, by my densiometric testing, the > Efke is a full stop faster (100 vs. 50) than the APX was. The only tricky > thing is that the Efke has a very soft emulsion which I shall remedy with > careful film handling and a hardening fixer. > > I've just ordered another 20 rolls for the freezer since I am now > officially paranoid about the stuff I love going out of production. > > > Next up: The 4x5 sheet film (which should act like the 21/4 x 3 1/4 > stuff I expect). > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tim Daneliuk > tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org <//www.freelists.org> and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.
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