Foma troubles...

[Erich Hoeber]

So I just bought a box of 100 4x5 sheets of Arista EDU Ultra 200 (foma) from freestyle. I was loading up some film holders to make tests, but the $&%# film is too big to fit in the holders (without buckling.) It's about a millimeter and a half too wide and a millimeter too long. Is this just a manufacturing defect? Or did they put some metric sized film in a box labeled 4x5? Actually, the film DOES measure 4x5" or pretty close.

Has anyone run into this?

Erich

PS. Emulsion number 007145-02, Expires 2008-08

[Erich Hoeber]

Ahh... sorry. It looks like this is a regular thing with Foma:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=23495&highlight=foma

[Toyon]

I had the same problem with EFKE 25 film. I bought a new box and the film fits.... but just barely.

[Gene McCluney]

I have used several hundred sheets of Freestyle (Foma) 200. in 5x7, and they have all fit satisfactorily in my holders.

[Scott Davis]

Ditto what Gene said. It is my film-to-go-to for 5x7. If anything, some of my older Lisco and Fidelity plastic holders are a bit loose on it. It isn't a Foma issue though, because they're just as loose on my Ilford FP4.

[Erich Hoeber]

Thanks Gene & Scott for your reports.

I called Freestyle and they said they'd had this problem before, but not in a while. Happily, they promptly replaced the defective film.