Film mfg

[R W Penn]

Someone please match edge printing on kodak tri-x and fuji film with Arista Premium 400.Are they the same type face? Thank you.

 

[Jim Noel]

I don't understand all the concern over who manufactures any particular film.
Try it. If you like it. Use it.
If not - don't use it.

Some simple testing will quickly reveal desirable and undesirable characters.

 

[ssloansjca]

I agree with Jim. They are both fine films and I use them.

That said, there is such a thing as poorly manufactured film. In particular DuPont long ago made some film that over decades disintegrated. The emulsion just separated from the film base over time. I printed the negative collection of an old train photographer and it was truly sad what happened to some of his fine old negatives.

Just for this reason it would be nice to know. Otherwise, they are both fine films.

~Steve Sloan

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Well, if you've settled on one particular film and you think that a private label film might be the same film at a lower price, and if you could find out without having to do any testing, I think it's a fair question.

 

[PhotoJim]

Well, if you've settled on one particular film and you think that a private label film might be the same film at a lower price, and if you could find out without having to do any testing, I think it's a fair question.

Haven't we established that it must be a Kodak film? It's made in the USA. Only one manufacturer makes black-and-white film in the USA, unless someone is doing it in his basement.

 

[srs5694]

Haven't we established that it must be a Kodak film? It's made in the USA. Only one manufacturer makes black-and-white film in the USA, unless someone is doing it in his basement.

That's it! Our very own PE is the supplier! (Sorry, couldn't resist....)

 

[PhotoJim]

That's it! Our very own PE is the supplier! (Sorry, couldn't resist....)

Shh. He told me to keep it a secret.

 

[pentaxuser]

That's it! Our very own PE is the supplier! (Sorry, couldn't resist....)

Well with his background that still makes it Kodak doesn't it After all those years there,.he probably bleeds Kodak chemicals.

PE Just make sure that if you need a transfusion you're near a Kodak lab and not a Fuji one. Otherwise it coud be fatal. A bit like giving rhesus negative blood to a rhesus positive patient.

pentaxuser

 

[PhotoJim]

A bit like giving rhesus negative blood to a rhesus positive patient.

Actually, that's ok - it's the reverse that is life-endangering.

 

[R W Penn]

So who has tri-x and aristra they can look at? I have used delta for a few years.

 

[srs5694]

R W, see (there was a url link here which no longer exists) and (there was a url link here which no longer exists) The topic of these new films has been hashed to death (and the remains exhumed and hashed some more) in these two threads.