From: Stane Kočar (stane.kocar@siol.net)
Date: 04/09/03-03:22:42 AM Z
If Arista films are cheaper than Ilford, than may be repacked Ilford PAN 100
or PAN 400 (pre and end product of HP5+ and FP4+). I can get it here for
half price of HP5+ and FP4+.
Stane Kocar, Slovenia
----- Original Message -----
From: Liam Lawless <liam.lawless@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 4:30 AM
Subject: RE: Film Speed and Negative Development
> Hi Scott,
>
> Well, I'm not familiar with this film and Richard says it's definitely
> Ilford, but maybe Ilford don't make budget film to quite the same spec as
> their regular films? The way to find out would be to develop Arista and
> Ilford together in the same tank. I think duff film is very unlikely if
> it's within its use-by date and has not been greatly abused in storage.
>
> There are some questions and answers at
> http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000EYy, where users
> seem to find the Arista films slower than their putative Ilford
equivalents.
> One thinks that Arista 125 is actually Pan F, which would agree with your
> results.
>
>
>
> Liam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Wainer [mailto:smwbmp@starpower.net]
> Sent: 09 April 2003 02:43
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Film Speed and Negative Development
>
>
> Hi Liam,
>
> > Do we know for sure that Arista Pro 125 is FP4+, or is this merely an
> > assumption? Is sensitometric/spectral sensitivity data available for
it;
> > might its ISO rating relate to a particular light source? If it's
> something
> > other than FP4+, maybe it's orthochromatic or even only blue-sensitive,
in
> > which case it can only make use of a proportion of the metered light in
> most
> > picture-taking situations.
> >
> > Liam
>
> No, I am not sure that it is FP4+. Freesytle's literature states that it
is
> "made by one of the world's foremost manufacturers in England"; of which I
> know only one - Ilford. All the processing information I have found (from
> Anchell, Troop, the Digitaltruth website, ect...) states that Arista is
> commonly assumed to be repackaged Ilford films and that the development
> times/dilutions are the same as the Ilford version. I could not find any
> published curves or other data on any Arista Films. The idea that it might
> be limited in its spectral sensitivity is very interesting and worth
looking
> into though I do not have the knowledge or equipment to make a scientific
> test of that magnitude.
>
> Scott
> smwbmp@starpower.net
>
>
>
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