mau
Hello FOTOIMPEX
When will you be able to supply the new ADOX Baryt paper?
MirkoBoeddecker
which, um
mau
The successor to the Forte Museum Baryta range.
For example, Vario Classic in 50x60 or the Warm Tone paper.
MirkoBoeddecker
The full Vario Classic range has been available for several weeks now – in gloss and matt finishes, and even in rolls.
Polywarmtone: if all goes well, in February.
However, we still have a large stock of various finishes and sizes – particularly the solid gradients.
Perhaps something from stock will suit your needs in the meantime.
Best regards,
Mirko
MirkoBoeddecker
Generally speaking: ADOX isn't necessarily the same as Forte.
Mirko
Gast
Hello,
I haven’t been following all the posts and may have missed something, but here’s my question: Is the PolywarmtonePlus FB PW-14 still available (again), and if so, under what name?
Thanks and best regards
Marc Walther
MirkoBoeddecker
Polywarmton PW14 was our Classic Polywarmton and is equivalent to the new ADOX Fine Print Polywarmtone in terms of emulsion.
PW 14 in its original form is no longer produced because the base paper is no longer available.
We still have a few residues of the old paper (mostly in matt) on the 320g Museum base as Classic Arts at the price listed in the catalogue.
The new paper (regardless of whether it says ‘Forte’ or anything else on it) will be on 290g base paper, as Forte used up all residual stock of the old base paper over the summer. It will also be around 10% more expensive (regardless of the supplier – they just haven’t all updated their price lists yet).
The advantage of the new base paper is a purer white and an environmentally friendly bleaching process.
So look for ADOX Fine Print Polywarmtone in the catalogue and add a little extra to the price.
Availability: Expected from February.
Best regards,
Mirko
MirkoBoeddecker
...just so you understand: anyone who buys up any residual stock of the old version will still have to pay the old price, as we bought it in at a lower cost – so we haven’t yet raised prices across the board (in anticipation of the new, more expensive stock, so to speak).
We’ll do that a week before the new stock arrives.
It’s a bit of a muddle, but the alternative would be worse for you...
Mirko
Gast
Generally speaking: ADOX isn’t necessarily the same as Forte.
Mirko
If not necessarily, under what conditions then?
MirkoBoeddecker
Forte currently produces a type of photographic paper for us.
It is a warm-toned, contrast-variable paper with medium to low speed, available on a 290g cardboard backing or, alternatively, on a PE backing.
We used to sell this paper – when it was still cast on 320g backing – under the name Classic Polywarmton. The residual stock is still labelled as such and offered at the old price.
When the new batch arrives on the new backing in February, it will be called ADOX Fine Print Polywarmton and will be slightly more expensive.
All ADOX baryta papers will then be uniformly coated on the same 290g substrate, which is bright white (for more brilliant image results) and bleached using an environmentally friendly process.
Over the last few years, we have consistently passed on feedback from our customers and our own experiences to the manufacturers, thereby influencing the properties of our products. This has led in part to improvements across the entire product range – in part, it has simply been incorporated into our own allocations.
We are continuing these efforts.
The aim is to develop improved variants (films and papers) which will then necessarily also differ from the wide variety of other products cast in the same production facilities.
Examples of this include the improvement of the 400 ASA Classic film, the development of the PL 25 and PL 50, which did not exist before, the new ADOX Fine Print Vario Classic with an improved emulsion and 290g base, the efke films, which will have a harder emulsion as soon as they are branded as ADOX, an improved gelatin supercoat on the sheet films, etc.
The whole thing is always a balancing act. Of course, the wish list of things that could still be improved is long, but technical and economic feasibility must always be taken into account.
In this respect, I wanted to make it clear that one cannot always say that Classic or ADOX is simply rebranded XY.
ADOX is an independent range of selected and unusual products on the market and stands for good value for money. We are one of the few on the market who are still actively promoting and improving analogue products.
In the long term, ADOX will offer a full range of analogue photographic materials. In doing so, loss-making product areas will be specifically subsidised using the profits we make in the mass market, and we will endeavour to manufacture these niche products flexibly and in small batches.
In other words, exactly the opposite of what the major players are currently doing.
Berlin, 4 January 2005
Mirko Bödecker
ADOX FOTOIMPEX
