Obviously this is no evidence, that it is Fomapan 100, but I do know, that Fomapan uses this nondescript backing paper. I also know, that not many films use such nondescript backing paper.
Wish you best luck exposing and developing this thing ...
Yep, Delta 3200 has that backing paper too (or at least it did when I last used it a couple of years ago.) Good luck, OP!Ilford uses that type of backing paper.
Bought a film back online and found a roll already loaded with the arrow lined up. But the backing paper is not routed correctly, so likely it’s not exposed. I rolled it back to find no identification markings. Any ideas what it could be? Anyway, I plan to shoot at ISO100 and develop in HC-110 or Rodinal, what could possibly go wrong, right?
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In these modern times, when minimum order quantities are so high from the remaining backing paper supplier(s), and 120 film sales volumes are so low, backing papers look very similar to each other.
I cannot find a supplier of backing paper to save my like, and I’ve asked everywhere I can think of. You would think the 120 width film would be the hardest thing to get for MF bulk rolling, it’s not lol. But this is definitely Ilford. Foma/rollei would have writing saying it’s 120, Kodak and Fuji would be… well, Kodak and Fuji, and Shanghai uses similar paper to Fuji. Only edge case I can think of is that maybe it could be CineStill or CatLabs, but it’s much more likely to be Ilford.
A few years ago Harman/Ilford were quite forthcoming about the details of backing paper availability, in the context of exploring whether it made economic sense to bring back 220 film production.
And of course Kodak went through the wrapper offset debacle when their huge inventory of self-produced backing paper finally dried up, years after the near collapse of the still film industry forced them to dismantle their backing paper manufacturing capacity - a debacle that nearly caused them to cease 120 film production.
There are very few paper manufacturers and printers out there that have the capacity to make the narrow tolerance, high specification paper necessary for top line film production, and their lead times are long and minimum order quantities are huge - which in turn imposes a large capital burden on the film manufacturers.
although Ive had some trouble with that as most labs seem to tear through the backing paper in some way when unloading the film.
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