Nzoomed
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Suspect that reliable small scale processing of super8 and 16mm film stocks would be a good way forward. CatLABS have posted about a prototype Jobo insert for rotary processing of super8 film, which seems like a good idea.
Tom
I agree, i think that we need more labs that can offer such services.
Im hoping that Film Ferrania will start their own E6 lab for super8 and 16mm processing.
Anyway, ive done some calculations, and it turns out that the area of film required to make one 50 foot roll of super 8 film is almost that of 2 rolls of 36 exp 35mm film (45 feet) so ive been wondering why the price of super8 film has been so expensive?
Perhaps its more expensive due to the cartridges its packed in? IDK. Or else is it the way that its cut off the master roll?
Do they have wastage perhaps with cutting super 8 off the master rolls?
Im hoping they can make it affordable as possible for the consumer, while them still making profit, its become prohibitively expensive for me to shoot it. Ektachrome 100D cost me almost $50 (NZD) per roll and then i had to pay two lots of international shipping on top of processing! So it works out to be close to $150 for 5mins footage.
If Ferrania can set up their own processing lab and offer prepaid film processing, that would be great, there could be some cost savings involved for them as they could reuse the plastic super8 cartridges etc.