Adox Bluefire

Forgive me for making a commercial announcement here, but I believe this
will be of interest to the people of this newsgroup, many of whom are highly
interested in things like this. It is not my intent to offend anyone or
misuse the newsgroup.

The high resolution film-developer combination originally created by
Bluefire Laboratories two years ago is now out of its test-marketing phase.
It is now being manufactured and sold under the trademark name Adox Bluefire
by Adox Fotowerke, Inc., a firm recently formed for the purpose of
reinstating the Adox name as an active supplier of photographic goods.

The Adox Bluefire film is an EI 80 formulation unrelated to the Adox films
of the 1950's, and will be useful for pictorial and technical photography.
The developer is an update of the original H&W Control formula, and gives
excellent pictorial gradation on films of the Adox Bluefire type -- thin,
hard, high-contrast microfilms and ortho films.

There is more information on http://www.efke.net, and
http://www.frugalphotographer.com where a small initial supply is now
available for sale. Several thousand rolls will be available when the full
shipment arrives from Germany toward the end of this month.

I would prefer to answer commercially-oriented questions by e-mail (dfoy at
adox.net) rather than use the newsgroup, but I will be glad to answer
technical or non-commercial questions here.

David Foy
Managing Director
Adox Fotowerke, Inc.

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:30:53 GMT, "David Foy"
wrote:



The Adox Bluefire film is an EI 80 formulation unrelated to the Adox films
of the 1950's, and will be useful for pictorial and technical photography.

As a young boy I remember using Adox film for most of my b&w work. But
in recent years I have switched to Kodak Tech Pan.

How would you compare this new Adox to tech pan?



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Ft. Worth, Texas

http://home.swbell.net/colyng

Updated with new photos
http://www.colyngoodson.com

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:30:53 GMT, "David Foy"
wrote:

The Adox Bluefire film is an EI 80 formulation unrelated to the Adox films
of the 1950's

Then what is your intention in deliberately choosing the "Adox" name?

Tech Pan has extended red sensitivity. Its base is very thin (a bulk roll of
150 feet fits in a 100-foot reloader). Adox Bluefire has normal red
sensitivity. Its base is normal thickness. They give different images and
handle differently in the darkroom.

Both are designed as hard, monodisperse, high-resolution films but my
understanding is that Tech Pan is multilayer and Adox Bluefire is monolayer.
My source for this is Bill Troop, who characterizes the Tech Pan emulsion as
complex. The different image quality is noticeable, and some photographers
will prefer one to the other on aesthetic grounds.

DF

"Colyn" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:30:53 GMT, "David Foy"
wrote:



The Adox Bluefire film is an EI 80 formulation unrelated to the Adox
films
of the 1950's, and will be useful for pictorial and technical
photography.

As a young boy I remember using Adox film for most of my b&w work. But
in recent years I have switched to Kodak Tech Pan.

How would you compare this new Adox to tech pan?



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Colyn Goodson
Ft. Worth, Texas

http://home.swbell.net/colyng

Updated with new photos
http://www.colyngoodson.com

The name is associated with high quality and innovation. It is also
associated with a certain kind of image. Today, high quality is the norm in
black and white film manufacture, and the old Adox image quality is still
with us in Efke films, but innovation has pretty much halted. I want to
communicate that the original Adox vision of innovation is back.

DF

"Andrew Price" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:30:53 GMT, "David Foy"
wrote:

The Adox Bluefire film is an EI 80 formulation unrelated to the Adox
films
of the 1950's

Then what is your intention in deliberately choosing the "Adox" name?

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 03:46:16 GMT, "David Foy"
wrote:

The name is associated with high quality and innovation. It is also
associated with a certain kind of image. Today, high quality is the norm in
black and white film manufacture, and the old Adox image quality is still
with us in Efke films, but innovation has pretty much halted.

Not entirely. Efke has recently introduced a new film base.

Yes, there continues to be innovation among smaller manufacturers. Thank you
for pointing that out.
DF
"Andrew Price" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 03:46:16 GMT, "David Foy"
wrote:

The name is associated with high quality and innovation. It is also
associated with a certain kind of image. Today, high quality is the norm
in
black and white film manufacture, and the old Adox image quality is still
with us in Efke films, but innovation has pretty much halted.

Not entirely. Efke has recently introduced a new film base.