Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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