Aristacolor Print Film from Freestyle

B&H and Adorama both sell most of the Fuji Superias in 12-exposure rolls. They are disproportionately expensive (I think they are only about $1.69 whereas 36-exposure rolls are $1.99), but they are available.

I wonder if your solution might be to get 100' rolls of films and roll them off yourself to the lengths you need.

Ektagraphic said:

It's not that I want to go cheap,(I don't like cheap films at all) it is just that I need 12 exposure rolls.

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I don't know whether you saw my last post, but there are other options for 12 exposure rolls.

B&H has two Kodak emulsions: Gold 200 and Max 400.

Dead Link Removed has two Fuji emulsions: Superia 100 and 200.

Ultrafine has several emulsions in 12 exposure: Fuji, Konica, and their own brand, which is cheaper than Freestyle's.

Lots of interesting replies so far, but it looks like only a very few have actually tried the stuff.

Now, if you just had an old Exakta you could wind from cassette to cassette in-camera, and cut the film off in mid roll using the built in cut-off knife. That way almost any roll of film could be used as a 12-exposure roll.

Here is a followup on Arista 100. As I mentioned earlier, I got better results by rating the film at EI-50 instead of the advertised 100. The color balance (with my scratch-mix chemistry) is not as easily corrected as the wonderfully balanced Kodak Portra and Fuji 160S products, but you can get decent abeit not professional-level results from it. It's certainly acceptable for a learning material which is how Freestyle advertises their Arista line of films and chemistry.

This is the best image I could get of the MacBeth chart and a negative made of Clematis growing near the front door. Both images were made on the same roll, processed and scanned identically. The exposures were determined by the camera using EI-50, and both images are close to full-frame scans.