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Originally Posted by 2F/2F  Good to know. Thanks. I assumed that the different names just meant different levels of "quality", all of which were always available. I didn't realize that when a new name came in the old one went out. |
In the past they have had different suppliers simultaneously; however, with all the upsets in the supply chain, Freestyle made a lot of changes in a short period. As I understand it, Ilford stopped permitting rebranding, so they switched their top line from Arista Pro (Ilford) to Arista II (Agfa), but Agfa went under not long thereafter. When Arista Pro was around, Freestyle offered Arista.EDU (Forte) as their "bargain" line. I don't recall why they switched this line to Arista.EDU Ultra (Foma), but that happened before Forte went under. For a while they had all four varieties -- old stock of the old ones and new stock of the new ones. I picked up several bulk rolls of Ilford Pan F+ under the Arista Pro 50 name for about half what it cost under the Ilford name. Most of that's still in my freezer.