Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I talked to an executive at an independent film/paper repacker some time ago and the conversation went something like this: HE: Our film got a top rating in the latest test in XYZ magazine (German) me: I do not give much for the opinions of that tester, his previous test had a whole page of development times for zyx film at different e.i.'s in eight or ten of different developers, but almost all of the times were just copied from the film manufacturers fact sheet and most people finds these times way too short, so I guess he had just copied data given to him by the manufacturer. HE: Well, what do you expect, the magazines pay him DM 200 (that a little more than $ 100) for each page, so he can not afford to do much testing himself and he has to inflate the text volume in order to make a little bit of money. Which just goes to show that the UK problems somebody else described is not a local one and that nothing beats your own testing ..... if this is possible - -- christer almqvist eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58