Re: [Leica] Re: Seattle Film Works

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Actually, the remjet coating was carbon based and was an anti-static coating
to keep those little lightning bolt like marks from appearing on the film
 You can see the phenomenon in old silent movies on Turner Classic Movies!).
The motion picture labs used a jet of water to prewash the film before the
developer. For some reason, I've never seen that kind of coating on B&W
movie stock, which I used in my hungry days when I could get it cheap (read
free here!)
Dan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Turner <mike@lcl-imaging.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 10:34 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Seattle Film Works


>At 03:29 PM 3/4/1999 EST, LEICAMAN56@aol.com wrote...
>>Hi Bill,
>>
>>Chances are it is the film you must send back to them for processing.
>This is
>>not compatible with c-41 processing.  If it is throw it out.
>>
>>Bill
>>
>Sorry, you are wrong. But this is how the #@$%& jerks suck people in. They
>used to package movie film which requires a pre-process step to eliminate
>an anti-halation backing which, if dumped into c41 developer would cause
>gunk to deposit on other film. Bad news. They are exploiting the fear of
>lab managers who don't realize that the film they are presently spooling is
>actually a c41 process film, manufactured by Agfa, in fact. Find a lab that
>will process the film before you expose anything important on it. Otherwise
>throw it out. Don't pay SFW anything for promoting this scam.
>
>
>Mike
>
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