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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
Freestyle is now selling a bw film it claims to have been made in the USA
for them. Does anyone know who actually makes it? I don't know to many mfgrs are making bw in the US today. |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
Lew wrote:
Freestyle is now selling a bw film it claims to have been made in the USA for them. Does anyone know who actually makes it? I don't know to many mfgrs are making bw in the US today. Too broad a question A certain film is claimed to be Kodak As far as the rest of Freestyle's economy films - PASS because they are rife with defects and inconsistencies Crap is crap |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
John J wrote:
As far as the rest of Freestyle's economy films - PASS because they are rife with defects and inconsistencies Before the industry "crashed" (Agfa went out of business, and Ilford "reorganized"), Freestyle's cheap film was made by Ilford and was every bit as good as the Ilford branded stuff. As part of the reoganization, Ilford stopped selling all of their black and white products except under their brand Ilford/Harmon. That film was sold off for a cheaply when it first went out of date and is now long gone. If I had a Holga, and could buy that film, I probably would as the defects would add to the "art", but that's a matter of personal choice. :-) Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
"Lew" wrote in message ... Freestyle is now selling a bw film it claims to have been made in the USA for them. Does anyone know who actually makes it? I don't know to many mfgrs are making bw in the US today. AFAIK Kodak is the only company making film in the US. Kodak has a long standing policy of not selling "custom" film but may have changed that if they thought that the market was large enough. One way to tell is to compare the processing instructions with various Kodak films to see if they are identical to any. Arista is a house brand used by Freestyle for all sorts of stuff. In the past most Arista films were made by Ilford and some may still be Ilford films. Arista EDU films appear to be mostly Eastern European stuff. Kodak and Ilford do not sell sub-standard films to house brand distributors and both have good quality control but this may not be true of some of the small manufacturers who's technology may be long obsolete. There is more than emulsion making involved: coating technology is very important and one can have useless film with excellent emulsions but lousy coating. -- -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
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"Lew" wrote: Freestyle is now selling a bw film it claims to have been made in the USA for them. Does anyone know who actually makes it? I don't know to many mfgrs are making bw in the US today. I believe that it's called Arista Premium. -- Charles Hohenstein (to reply, remove Gene Robinson) "The sad huddle of affluent bedwetters, thumbsuckers, treehuggers, social*climbers, homophiles, quavery ladies, and chronic petition signers that*makes up the current Episcopal Church . . ." -‹Thomas Lipscomb |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
The specific film(s) I'm referring to are called 'Arista Premium' in their
35mm iso 400 incarnations made in the USA. Thanks. "Lew" wrote in message ... Freestyle is now selling a bw film it claims to have been made in the USA for them. Does anyone know who actually makes it? I don't know to many mfgrs are making bw in the US today. |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
Lew wrote:
The specific film(s) I'm referring to are called 'Arista Premium' in their 35mm iso 400 incarnations made in the USA. Thanks. That's Kodak film. |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
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Lew wrote: The specific film(s) I'm referring to are called 'Arista Premium' in their 35mm iso 400 incarnations made in the USA. Does it have square sprocket holes, or slightly unusual looking ones with rounded corners? -- Thor Lancelot Simon "Even experienced UNIX users occasionally enter rm *.* at the UNIX prompt only to realize too late that they have removed the wrong segment of the directory structure." - Microsoft WSS whitepaper |
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Who makes Freestyle noew Arista bw film?
"Thor Lancelot Simon" wrote in message ... In article , Lew wrote: The specific film(s) I'm referring to are called 'Arista Premium' in their 35mm iso 400 incarnations made in the USA. Does it have square sprocket holes, or slightly unusual looking ones with rounded corners? -- Thor Lancelot Simon My bet is that its regular run Tri-X ISO-400. The sprocket holes with circular sides are used for motion picture negative film (Bell & Howell perforations) while the oblong perfs with rounded corners (Kodak perfs) are used for 35mm still film and motion picture positive film. This inconsistency traces well back in motion picture history. It turns out that B&H perfs register slightly more precisely than Kodak perfs but are more subject to tearing at the corners under stress as in repeated projection. I don't think Freestyle is selling spooled motion picture stock (but could be wrong). BTW, Plus-X motion picture negative stock is good stuff. The processing instructions are for automatic machines using a Kodak developer intended for them but it works fine in D-76 although it takes a little testing to find the right times for small tanks. -- -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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