8X10 Agfa APX100 dropped

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I was just told by a retail photo dealer in Halifax, Nova Scotia that Agfa APX100 in 8X10 size will no longer be sold in Canada. Has anyone else heard about this?

-- David Grandy (dgrandy@accesscable.net), September 01, 2000

Answers

The APX100 in 8X10 was also dropped from the USA market last year.

-- Jeff (info@badgergraphic.com), September 01, 2000.

A well placed source in Kodak has told be that within a very short time, perhaps only a few years, there will be only a handful of large format films available. Primarily T-Max 100 in 4x5. Everything else from Kodak will be extinct or special order, and that will disappear in a short time.

Looks like we may all have digital backs for our cameras sooner than we thought.

Buy it now and buy a large freezer.

Bill

-- Bill Smithe (bs2@aol.com), September 01, 2000.


The Agfa 100 8X10 was also dropped in the German market. 5X7 and 9X12 are still being made.

-- William Levitt (light-zone@operamail.com), September 04, 2000.

I would imagine that if you were to get enough people together to make it worthwhile any company would make a special run for you. After all, if the are making it in 4 x 5 they are probably cutting it to that size. Shouldn't be all that hard to convince them to NOT cut it for a special run.

-- kevin kolosky (kjkolosky@kjkolosky.com), September 05, 2000.

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