[Leica] Kentmere 400

[Douglas Barry]

Easily known I'm out of touch with film - $68 a roll seems just a teeny 
bit steep!

But the Japanese are mad on their cameras, aren't they? Then I looked at 
their cameras for sale and saw this 
https://showa-store.com/collections/camera/products/olympus-om1-black-auto-s-50-1-8-lens 
and its $2,080 price and truly was boggle-eyed with disbelief, as I have 
five or six of those. Then I realised that Showa wasn't Japanese, but 
Hong Kong based with prices in HKD. What a let down! That said 
considering I bought many of my camera collection in various charity 
shops for peanuts, there certainly seems to be a market for good 
condition SLRs.

Douglas


On 22/07/2021 22:08, Lluis Ripoll via LUG wrote:
> Thank you Marty! It’s interesting, if you can test the Oriental film I would like know your opinion, I’ve found this:
>
> To Buy
> https://showa-store.com/products/seagull-oriental-400-35mm
>
> Comments:
> https://toivonenphoto.com/blog/2018/1/5/budapest-oriental-seagull-400-in-d76-11
>
> https://www.filmshooterscollective.com/analog-film-photography-blog/under-the-radar-oriental-seagull-400-renato-repetto-10-10
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
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>> El 21 jul 2021, a les 11:11, Marty Deveney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
>>
>> Oriental Seagull is apparently made for the Japanese market by Harmann.  It
>> is hard to get outside Japan.
>>
>> There is a reasonable list of extant film manufacturers here:
>> https://wiki2.org/en/Photographic_film#In_production
>> We just went into a Level 5 response (basically lockdown) so I have time to
>> think before I do anything.
>>
>>