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MACO™ Emulsion-Based Photographic Film and Paper Products

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It is no secret that the digital "revolution" is taking the emulsion film product manufacturers by storm and we all know that there have been massive product discontinuations by all the world's major film manufacturers including Agfa, Ilford, Fiji, and Kodak as well as lesser known film manufacturers as well. While the bulk of anyone's film business was related to "amateur" film applications, which has long since been supplanted by digital imaging (which of course does not use any film), for other applications where expensive and unique scientific and other imaging instrumentation costing thousands of dollars are involved, the conversion to digital is not so easy of an option either for technical or economic reasons.

Fortunately for all of us, the Hans O. Mahn & Co. Kg. was organized to continue the production under license from the original manufacturer various discontinued films and in other cases, while not exact plug-in substitutes, the films can be used in place of other discontinued films.

SPI Supplies has been appointed the worldwide distributor (outside of Germany) for the electron microscope related films and for other MACO film products, we serve as a distributor on a non-exclusive basis. We don't want to rush to market prematurely a new MACO film for which we are not yet geared up to support so the introduction of the various MACO film products will occur over time. If you want a particular MACO film product that you don't see, if you have been told of a favorite film now being discontinued and you want to know what is the MACO equivalent if any, tell us what you need and we will respond quickly with an answer in terms of whether we can help you or not.

Chemistries:
In general, all of the MACO films can be processed using similar chemistries that you have been using previously for the originally used film. There can be some differences, for example, if in the conversion one switches to an orthochromatic from a panchromatic film, since the orthochromatic film contains roughly three times the silver content, one can expect the fixer to be depleted roughly three times faster.

SPI Supplies will be introducing our own branded chemicals that are designed to be more optimum for use with the MACO films but perhaps of even greater importance, the pricing will be drastically lower than the chemicals from the famous name manufacturers.


Available products from MACO:

Electron microscopy
Replacement for Kodak Technical Pan Film 6415 (Rollei® Orthochromatic Film ORTO25)



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