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piterengel - 15 Dec 2004 05:37 GMT

Hi, I've seen that it is now available by my favourite seller FOMA
film, 100 and 400 ISO. I've red they are czeck products and I'm
interesting on them expecially 100 ISO. What can be said on these
products compared with Delta and Pan F+?

Thanks all

P.

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David Nebenzahl - 15 Dec 2004 07:17 GMT

On 12/14/2004 9:37 PM piterengel spake thus:

> Hi, I've seen that it is now available by my favourite seller FOMA
> film, 100 and 400 ISO. I've red they are czeck products and I'm
> interesting on them expecially 100 ISO. What can be said on these
> products compared with Delta and Pan F+?

Don't know much, but I can tell you that Foma isn't a T-grain (tabular grain)
film like Delta (or TMax). Just regular old grain film.

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ArtKramr - 29 Dec 2004 18:16 GMT

>Subject: Re: FOMA films
>From: David Nebenzahl nobody@but.us.chickens
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>film like Delta (or TMax). Just regular old grain film.

Not exactly. Actually the Foma T-200 is a T grain film which is why Kodak had
it banned from the US market.

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jjs - 29 Dec 2004 19:41 GMT

> Not exactly. Actually the Foma T-200 is a T grain film which is why Kodak
> had
> it banned from the US market.

Of course we can still buy it in the US. So where is J&C Photo? Their domain
is registered to someone in Kansas, but where is the real place?

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Rich Shepard - 09 Jan 2005 01:37 GMT

> Of course we can still buy it in the US. So where is J&C Photo? Their domain
> is registered to someone in Kansas, but where is the real place?

Right there. Use either <http://www.jandcphoto.com/> or
<http://www.jandcphotography.com/>.

Rich

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Kokon - 15 Dec 2004 10:08 GMT

Don't expect too much from Foma films, they are old technology negatives,
quite popular here in Poland because they are cheap(schools buy them for
students). Foma 200(it was called even Foma T200) is said to be a T-grain
emulsion and got some good reviews; I've shot one or two rolls, it's ok.
Compared to Delta or PanF+, Foma100 and 400 are grainy and have low
resolution, only Foma200 could be an exception.

Blazej

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marcin - 15 Dec 2004 11:47 GMT

Foma is a classic panchromatic black-and-white film (not T-grain);
comparing to delta and f+, it's worse in all categories (res,
contrast, tonal range)
besides price. It`s more like Ilford PAN (still, PAN is better).
Foma produces 135, 120 and sheets - (afair cheapest sheets)
Forget about 35 mm foma films expect 100. There was foma t200, but now
it's called
"creative" and it's the same material as others - and who uses ISO200
film?
Foma 100 is interesting i.e in rodinal 1+100 (especially 50@100, very
soft)
and in d-23/d-76 - giving something like "old-type-look and feeling".
Foma 400 is a missunderstanding.
IMHO best product is foma 100 classic in 120 roll. Cheap, good
looking, classic.
Foma also produces quite nice b&w reversal film and process set for
it,
what is an alternative for Agfa Scala (and it`s a good alternative).
Besides negatives there is a range of papers, dev. and other
chemistry -
better or worse. You can check it on
http://www.foma.cz/foma/produkt/foto.asp?seznam=cernob_fot

best regards
marcin
former foma user ;-)

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Gilbert - 15 Dec 2004 21:16 GMT

I was told by the importer of Foma in Holland that Fomapan 100 is a
conventional emulsion, but that Fomapan 200 is a T-grain/Delta kind of
emulsion.

G.

>> Hi, I've seen that it is now available by my favourite seller FOMA
>> film, 100 and 400 ISO. I've red they are czeck products and I'm
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>marcin
>former foma user ;-)

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Andrew Price - 15 Dec 2004 21:26 GMT

>I was told by the importer of Foma in Holland that Fomapan 100 is a
>conventional emulsion, but that Fomapan 200 is a T-grain/Delta kind of
>emulsion.

The Fotoimpex website:

<http://fotoimpex.de/Technik/FomaT200/fomat200.html>

confirms that.

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marcin - 17 Dec 2004 11:48 GMT

> The Fotoimpex website:
>
> <http://fotoimpex.de/Technik/FomaT200/fomat200.html>
>
> confirms that.

well, from my practice ;) foma t200 and creative were different ;-)
http://www.foma.cz/Upload/foma/prilohy/F_pan_200_en.pdf
but technotes says it's the same (besides box ;). Just try it.
I can't say for sure cause I'm not using foma besides 120 roll (100)
and R100 (reversal) - this is worth to try.

Best regards
marcin

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David Nebenzahl - 19 Dec 2004 21:23 GMT

On 12/15/2004 1:26 PM Andrew Price spake thus:

>> I was told by the importer of Foma in Holland that Fomapan 100 is a
>> conventional emulsion, but that Fomapan 200 is a T-grain/Delta kind of
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>
> confirms that.

So it would appear that I was wrong (in stating that Foma films were
non-T-grain). Oh, well; wouldn't be the first time.

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Tomik - 15 Dec 2004 21:46 GMT

I was buying FOMA films very often because they are very cheap here in Czech
Republic. But it's very bad for good work. Now I use ILFORD PAN 400 and this
is much more better than FOMA 100 (grain, flexibility etc.). FOMA is good
for practice, not for final work to the exhibitions.

> Hi, I've seen that it is now available by my favourite seller FOMA
> film, 100 and 400 ISO. I've red they are czeck products and I'm
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> P.

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