Bergger Question

The Berrger developing question before this one made me think...I have heard people for years now bemoaning the loss of Super XX film, like it was the death of black-and-white thirty-plus years ago when it vanished. So, how come if Bergger 200 is supposed to be the new replacement, it hasn't taken the black-and-white world by storm? Seems like if Super XX was as needed as I heard, every store and photographer should be rushing for BPF. Yet, it seems to be rather difficult to get, only mail order, really. I don't mean to say anything about the film, I am yet to try it, and I suspect it is very nice. It is the lack of reaction, by all those who I get the impression use a lost film as an excuse, that I find interesting. I was told once by a former professional studio photographer, that he wouldn't be able to do good black-and-white after his supply of 35mm Panatomic X ran out. What rubbish. The man had an 8x10 camera, even. The romance over the lost Super XX strikes me the same. Super XX has a new replacement...so what are people doing with it?

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