Complete list of all films - help needed

[cmo]

Many manufacturers are gone - Forte, R.I.P.

Many films are gone - Kodak Technical Pan, R.I.P.

But many are still available, and I am consolidating a list of all films and their trade brands - and I need your help, if you know details.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of films. You never know what you're gonna get." The difference of our new consildated list to other lists is this: we will show the original manufacturer names and add the trade brands. Let's change momma's opinion, let's just make clear what's in the film boxes.

Examples:

- Ilford FP4 (also available as 'Arista Pro BW 125' and 'Adox CHM 125 PRO')

- Fomapan 100 (also available as 'Classic Pan 100' and, in the USA, as 'Arista EDU Ultra B&W 100')

- Agfa Aviphot Pan 200 Aerial film (also available as 'Rollei Infrared 400')

- Filmotec/ORWO Negativfilm N 74 plus Movie film (also available as 'Maco Cube' and 'Rollei R3')

- AGFA COPEX Pan AHU (also available as 'Gigabitfilm')

Who knows details about manufacturers and trade brands and can help us with this list?

 

[Denis R]

freestyle

freestyle will give you more results, vendor of rebranded film
(there was a url link here which no longer exists) will get you started

 

[pgomena]

I hate to be a pessimist, but make sure you file your list in an editable form.

Peter Gomena

 

[John Shriver]

Kodak uses different names for the same film in different countries, to discourage the "grey market", and allow differential pricing. Makes it very confusing.

No Ilford films are sold as private label anymore. They may sell their Kentmere films that way, eventually.

What you want from Kodak is the current L-9 stockroom catalog. But, they don't distribute current versions on the web, perhaps because they only produce the version with the wholesale prices? Plus, it gets outdated as they discontinue films.

 

[JMC1969]

cmo,

I tried to do this once before as well here: (there was a url link here which no longer exists) Not much response and I would say that is because it is spread far and wide throughout the APUG threads. After the above attempt I did some digging and what I came up with was this post I made in a different forum.

"Arista II = Old Agfa APX 100/400
Arista Premium 100 = Kodak Plus-x
Arista Premium 400 = Kodak Tri-x
Arista.EDU = Fortepan (Hungary)
Arista.EDU Ultra = Fomapan (czech)
Rollei Retro = Also APX
Legacy (freestyle) = Fuji Neopan and 100 Acros
Efke = All these are made with the old ADOX formulas (croatia)
Adox (films however) = CHM 125/400 Made by Ilford, CHS 25/50/100 Efke
MACO = Never made film just re-badged it (Rollei & MACO)
Bergger = old stock was made in Fortepan Plant, may be moved to Ilford

Quick note: As of the sale of Ilford in 2005, Ilford no longer re-badges any of there films yet there is old stock still out there for sale, like the ADOX. As of 2007, Ilford agreed to make Bergger films, but they are not Ilford emulsions, they are Bergger’s formulas.

I think there is more to go here, but I will have to find my notes"

Since this post I have also found that J and C films were also Fotrepan

Hope this helps and PLEASE, if anyone sees a untruth to the above, please state as so. Rather than speculation, please state how you are to know this. I spent a very long time sifting through the thread to narrow things down to this list.

Thank you

 

[mikebarger]

Some of the J&C were Ilford, some were EFKE also.

Mike

 

[Brac]

There are at least three manufacturers in China who appear to still be active - Lucky, New Era & Shanghai. You could pick up details of their products by searching for the many other threads on here, plus New Era & Lucky both have English language websites. There may still be some film manufacturing in parts of the former Soviet Union, but I'm not sure on that.

As well as the films in their general catalogue, and the new Kentmere branded filmks, Ilford also sell in certain markets their Pan 100 and Pan 400 35mm films. These are not the same as any of their other products.

 

[videocrew]

Don't forget random store brands. Like Walgreens used to be (still is?) Agfa Vista.

 

[Steve Hamley]

If you ever get it right, it will be wrong in 6 months. It's important to understand this is a project that will take continuous work - and a lot of it - if its to be anything more than a "snapshot" in time.

Cheers, Steve