Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One point of note on the 5247 (or whatever the number of the movie film was). The Fuji lab in NJ will (or at least would) process it. They ran at least one batch a week and sometimes more if quantity was high enough. It cost more, only provided one set (twin was standard for 'normal' film) and tended to look pretty bad but it was faster and cheaper then SFW, and helped to wean folks off the 'free' film. Bill Michael D. Turner wrote: > At 12:37 PM 3/4/1999 -0800, Richard Edwards wrote... > >>From http://photo.net/photo/film.html, in Phil Greenspun's list of film > >to avoid: > > > >"Anything derived from movie stock, e.g., Seattle Film Works. Movie film > >is > >lower quality than photographic film and it is also > >non-archival. Your memories will fade very quickly if you don't keep > >your processed negatives in the freezer (which is what movie studios > >do). > >[Note: normal color neg film will say "Process C41" on the canister. > >If it says "Process ***something else****" then you've got movie film. > >This is why the junk that Seattle Filmworks respools cannot be > >processed at your local minilab.] > See my other posts. They don't spool movie film anymore, but exploit this > ancient history by not mentioning c41 on the canister... > >There may be other opinions about this, but it seems they use > >movie stock. I would also be interested to hear further information. > Not. It's Agfa c41 film. Some labs know better and will process it. I did. > No problem. If you can't find somebody to process it, throw it away. Don't > pay SFW to do it. > > Mike > > "Sing whatever is well made..." > -W. B. Yeats