[rollei_list] Re: Rodinal & Agfa brand names
- From: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:20:09 +0200
> > Allen Zak wrote:
> My comment on Rodinal
>refers to its availability. In Columbus, a large city, it is not
>stocked at any of our local shops.
I have bought a fresh-from-fresh-stock bottle of Rodinal last year.
By mail order from a French distributor.
A limited number of former Agfa chemicals was re-launched by a company
named A&O after the bankruptcy of AgfaPhoto (a short-lived spin-off
company of Agfa Gevaert).
To date (Oct 2008) there seem to be changes in the intricated issued
about who makes what and who distributes what, A&O either changed its
name or re-organised or vanished.
Moreover, there seem to be a harsh controversy about the use of trade
names of the former Agfa Photo company including Rodinal(TM).
Comments on this subject, posted by on galerie-photo.info by a French
distributor of film & darkroom products say that the original Agfa brand
names like Rodinal could no longer be used outside Germany. The question
is : who owns what and who licences which brand to which.
However, the probability to continue getting Rodinal or Rodinal-like
developer for the years to come is very high. Whatever the actual brand
might be.
So Rodinal aficionados, be confident, as they say in the New World :
"When there is a demand, there will be a supply and brave entrepreneurs
to serve this market, even if it is a niche market"
(ahem : in the New World, I also had heard guys with definite &
un-questionable arguments about the Market being able to self-regulate
without any interference from the State ... )
BTW for those who swear only by ORWO paper and Pentacon cameras, there
exists a rodinal-like developer named CALBE R09 manufactured in Germany
(another former Eastern-block story, more details here
http://www.apug.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-21088-p-3.html ).
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Emmanuel
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