Fujifilm: Positive News

Wallendo said:

It made little sense for Fuji to proceed with just a single B&W film. I know that they manufactured a B&W movie film designed for archiving color-separations for color films, but have have not heard anything about this lately, and wonder if it is still being manufactured.

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Still on offer. But keep in mind it is an ortho-film. (With the exposure being based on files, and not on seperations through optical filters, it need not to see the true colours.)

AgX said:

Still on offer. But keep in mind it is an ortho-film. (With the exposure being based on files, and not on seperations through optical filters, it need not to see the true colours.)

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This stock is strictly tailored to the wavelength of the green laser on the Arri Laser Film Recorder.

alentine said:

It's not gelatin silver!
RA4 is colour.
Do I have a mistake here?

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AgX said:

RA-4 paper is a silver-halide product as b&w paper. And silver-halide products is what Fuji referred too. And thus they are right.

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Yes, it could be silver halide, but it's definitely not Gelatin Silver Paper.
When I first read the original post, I thought the OP means "Gelatin Silver Print"(in which metallic Silver embedded in the Gelatin coating) when he noted to "Silver Halide".
Ilford has more accurate definition:
https://www.ilfordphoto.com/silver-halide/
The following photo, page 5/6, From: https://www.fujifilm.eu/fileadmin/c...et/PIB_Professional_Textured_Paper_Canvas.pdf

Chromogenic, c-type, ra4 or photographic paper, could be more accurate alternatives.
I'm honestly happy to see photographic products coming back more popular.
But also, I think it's a candy gift trick to direct digital photographers to what looks to them as a big participation in film photography world.

alentine said:

Yes, it could be silver halide, but it's definitely not Gelatin Silver Paper

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Of course it is Silver Halide.
And from my (engineering) point of view it is Gelatin Silver Paper.
But keep in mind this term is not even found in the Focal Encyclopedia, neither is Silver Gelatin. But I know the latter meanwhile is used by art historians. But this shows how tricky terms can be.