Freestyle Arista Brand is Ilford

[doubs43]

The following is the text from an email I received from Freestyle yesterday. I don't know if they've changed sources for Arista products or not. BTW, the "secret" was already known to many who used Arista film and papers.

The email text: " We knew that educators and students needed to get the best value for their money, and Ilford knew it too. That's why Freestyle and Ilford teamed together to bring top-quality products to teachers and schools at terrific prices. Due to contractual obligations, we could not disclose the manufacturer as Ilford, but now the secret is out and all remaining Arista black and white products are available at their original prices until sold out.

If you prefer to pay more for the branded product....fine, but if you want the SAME PRODUCT for less, then Arista is your BEST VALUE! But Hurry... It is only available while supplies last!

Arista Classic Graded FB
is Ilford Galerie FB
As low as $16.99
Arista Classic VC FB
is Ilford Multigrade IV-VC FB
As low as $14.99
Arista Graded RC
is Ilford Ilfospeed RC
As low as $12.99
Arista Premium RC VC
is Ilford Multigrade MG-IV RC DeLuxe
As low as $10.99
Arista Plus RC VC
is Ilford MG RC Cooltone
As low as $10.99
Arista Pro 50
is Ilford Pan F Plus
As low as $1.89 on 20 more
Arista Pro 125
is Ilford FP4 Plus
As low as $24.99
Arista Pro 400
is Ilford HP5 Plus
As low as $14.99
Arista D-Max 100
is Ilford Delta 100
As low as $2.49 on 20 or more
Arista D-Max 400
is Ilford Delta 400
As low as $2.59 on 20 or more"

Walker

 

[rover]

Hmm, I thought one of there inhouse films was AGFA.

 

[kaiyen]

This is the second Arista>Ilford thread but...

Arista.edu was Forte.
Arista Pro was Ilford
Arista.edu Ultra is Foma
Arista II (or Pro II) is Agfa (AFAIK)

allan

 

[flamingo]

Is there a decent Ilford (Arista) paper to contact print 8 X 10 ?
Or is Kodak AZO it ?

 

[phototone]

Is it really such a difficult deal to make contact prints on enlarging paper? I have done it for years from 8x10 b/w and color negatives. You just reduce the intensity of your light source, which can be an enlarger and contact printing frame, or a special built contact printing box. Either way, I have achieved wonderful rich fully toned prints. There is nothing about enlarging papers that makes them unsuitable for contact printing use. I made my own printing box years ago which uses a dichroic color head, and I had to mask down the light output to get it in the range where I could make exposures in the 5 to 10 second range. No problem. I made a big plywood box with a hinged lid. painted the inside of the box in flat white, drilled a hole on one end for the color head, put an 11x14 piece of opal glass on the top to put the negative on. By using a handheld exposure meter to calibrate, I put cardboard light baffles inside to even out the light across the face of the glass. Put a piece of foam rubber on the underside of the lid, and a latch on the lid to hold it closed in the down position. I have made thousands of prints on this box, both in color and b/w. I used to shoot 8x10 color negative of products, and strip the negative together with some type (produced as a litho negative) to produce a print that had the product description on it.