RE: Ilford Large Sheet Film Sizes Dropped

The message is that we have to move with changing technology. When
Panatomic-X (ASA 32), the superb fine-grain film was taken off the market by
Kodak, I loaded my freezer so that I could keep using it far into the
future. The future came and left me back in history. I am sure there are
many who mourned the passage of hand-coated glass plates and then we had to
give up the nitrate-based film that made such great stink bombs when ignited
and tossed into a theater. It will work out. It is the creativity of the art
that counts, not its technology. As with the the military strategist,
Alexander the Great, or with the modern sexologists, it is not the size of
the army but the fury of the attack that counts. Joachim
-----Original Message-----
From: FDanB@aol.com [mailto:FDanB@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:45 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Ilford Large Sheet Film Sizes Dropped

I don't know if this is news to the alt-photo list but Pin-hole
photographer and platinum printer, Craig Barber, just sent the following
which should be of interest to those using large view cameras:

Subject: RIP: Ilford HP5 12x20

Dear Ilford 12x20 HP5 Plus Customer,

I'm sending this out to all customers that have order [sic] HP5 Plus
12x20 film from us in the past or who currently have an order with us.

I received a call from Ilford this morning informing me that production
of HP5 Plus in 12x20 has been discontinued and our order with them will
not be filled.

In sizes larger than 8x10 this leaves 11x14 HP5 Plus as the only size
still available, but Ilford tells me that availability is limited to the
stock on hand and 11x14 HP5 Plus will also be discontinued when stocks
are gone. (NOTE: I'll be placing an order today for HP5 Plus 11x14)

This leaves Bergger BPF as all that will be available in the future in
sizes larger than 8x10.

If you have an order with us for HP5 Plus 12x20, I have canceled it.
Please call me or my assistant, Dennis if you want to place an order for
the Bergger film.

Regards,

Fred Newman

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PO Box 19450
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www.viewcamerastore.com
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