Re: SFX 200

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:45:25 +0100, John Gateley wrote:

|I was in my local large camera store this afternoon (Glazer's in Seattle)
|picking up some fast color neg to shoot an afternoon soccer game and there
|on the counter was some nice, new Ilford SFX 200.
|Now if we just have some sunshine tomorrow I might get in some testing.

Oh?  You have sunshine in Seattle?

Sorry--I just couldn't resist.  When I visited a Lynwood businessman
one time and commented on the beautiful view of Mt. Rainier I'd had on
the way there that morning, his California-born wife commented acidly
that in seven years in Seattle she hadn't seen Mt. Rainier once.  No
wonder they had to put SFX200 out on the counter in order to move it!

Anyway, I finally called B&H in New York about that mysterious "SFX750
INFRARED" film in their catalog.  They claim that it is just another
Ilford designation for SFX-200, based on the limiting wavelength in
the red band.  (Is that the limit, in any rational sense, of the
Ilford material?)  They further imply that they don't give a hoot
whether Ilford doesn't want it called an "infrared" film; it goes into
the infrared, and they (B&H) are going to say so.  They also deny that
the material is available in 120.  Is that so--or does B&H just not
carry 120?

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