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From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: May 19, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: Those black slides
> William Robb wrote:
>
> > > > Agfapan 25
> > >
> > > Sniffle - I'm down to my last 40 rolls.
> >
> > Trade ya 10 of em for a lens pen
> > William Robb
>
> I'll trade for some well-stored Panatomic-X.
>
> I've always been curious as to why Kodak chose that name.
Perhaps
> it had some reference to the modern, "atomic age" of the late
> forties and the fifties. When did Panatomic-X first appear?
Man, I only have a dozen rolls of Panatomic left. I think it
came out in the late 50s, so is likely named for the age of
blowing up south Pacific islands. Of course, having granularity
"as small as atoms" might also have something to do wit the
name.
William Robb
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