Re: Kodak HIE slides

[Clive Warren <Clive.Warren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:27 pm +0100 28/2/00, Eckhard Stephan wrote:

>"Klecker, Hermann (H.)" wrote:
>>
>> Tetenal in Germany offers a slide kit as well.
>
>AFAIK, they had to discontinue it because it didn't comply to some
>EU-regulations... The only bw slide kit "officially" sold in Germany at
>the moment is the new Kodak reversal kit. So if you know a source that
>still offers the Tetenal chemistry, you should probably buy as much as
>you can ;-)
>BTW, there's another EU-rule that may cause some problems for
>photographers: The production of certain batteries containing mercury
>isn't allowed anymore. In the future it might get difficult to find
>batteries e.g. for most of the still popular Prakticas :-(
>
>Eckhard


The last Mercury Oxide battery production in Europe was carried out by
Varta in Germany at the end of 1998.  Since that time there have been no
more produced - something to do with the new green tendencies of German
politicians....

I also understand that England is the only EU country that still allows
sale of old/existing stock of mercury oxide batteries.  The batteries have
been banned from sale in Europe and North America.

If you need these batteries and have a source then buy a few at the same
time as the Tetenal slide kit :-)

What is better about the Tetenal kit compared to the Kodak reversal kit?


All the best,

             Clive   http://www.cocam.co.uk
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