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Oliver Oey - 04 Mar 2004 20:05 GMT

How do people generally feel about Forte film around here?

I have not seen any mention of it on this group for the last couple of
months. If it is already been mentioned and discussed to death then I
apologize. Maybe someone could point me to a faq.

Thanks in advance.

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Gregory W Blank - 05 Mar 2004 02:44 GMT

> How do people generally feel about Forte film around here?
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> Thanks in advance.

Depends on which incarnation you speak of.
Roll or sheet film ?

In general I dislike the roll films, the sheet films are
half way decent.

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Victor Falkteg - 05 Mar 2004 20:41 GMT

Remember i got some a long time ago.
I can sum it up in one word: Rubbish

Regards

Victor

> How do people generally feel about Forte film around here?
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DM - 09 Mar 2004 06:32 GMT

> How do people generally feel about Forte film around here?
>
> I have not seen any mention of it on this group for the last couple of
> months. If it is already been mentioned and discussed to death then I
> apologize. Maybe someone could point me to a faq.

The Forte films I've used are like the very old Tri-X but quite silver
rich. I wouldn't shoot 35mm Forte. The medium format films are excellent
and produce very rich, dense negs with a good tonal range. I found them
easy to print. Their 35mm incarnations were sucky. Lots of grain.

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Silvio Manuel - 09 Mar 2004 09:41 GMT

> The Forte films I've used are like the very old Tri-X but quite silver
> rich. I wouldn't shoot 35mm Forte. The medium format films are excellent
> and produce very rich, dense negs with a good tonal range. I found them
> easy to print. Their 35mm incarnations were sucky. Lots of grain.

The medium Format stuff sucks to. Possibly the only good Forte is the
Large Format films because the base is thicker. The Medium format films
are ugly just like the 35mm.

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DM - 11 Mar 2004 06:02 GMT

> The medium Format stuff sucks to. Possibly the only good Forte is the
> Large Format films because the base is thicker. The Medium format films
> are ugly just like the 35mm.

Hmmm.. maybe the ones you get today. The last time I tried Forte was
about 5 years back. They were quite good back then (the MF films).

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Silvio Manuel - 11 Mar 2004 10:30 GMT

> Hmmm.. maybe the ones you get today. The last time I tried Forte was
> about 5 years back. They were quite good back then (the MF films).

Define good, I used the film 5 years ago to do some weddings, film base
coarse, the tape you seal the rolls with would come off inside my back and
wedge inside the back and I found the film was sometimes unpredictable
from batch to batch. Granted I am hard to please, give me HP5 or even T max
films any day over Forte 120.

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DM - 15 Mar 2004 04:56 GMT

> > Hmmm.. maybe the ones you get today. The last time I tried Forte was
> > about 5 years back. They were quite good back then (the MF films).
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> from batch to batch. Granted I am hard to please, give me HP5 or even T max
> films any day over Forte 120.

Hmmm... maybe my standards were poor back then.
I didn't shoot more than a couple of rolls of Forte back then but
they weren't that bad. I liked the batch I got. Tight grain and
good tonal separation.

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Jytzel - 17 Mar 2004 20:08 GMT

> > How do people generally feel about Forte film around here?
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> and produce very rich, dense negs with a good tonal range. I found them
> easy to print. Their 35mm incarnations were sucky. Lots of grain.

I agree. Very rich tonality but bad resolution.

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