Good news for slide lovers in Germany

RowanBloemhof

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Cool. It just happens i'm making a trip to eastern germany next month. This Drogerie Markt i guess can be found in any midsized city?

Ive been looking to try some slide film for a while now. But its pricing i always found a deterrent. 2 rolls for €8 is however very reasonable. Does DM also do development of E6?
 
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Yes, they do development. It takes a while, but you drop your film in store, and it will be there after some time (you need to ask locally how long it takes).

DM is almost everywhere:

http://www.dm.de/de_homepage/

I have read online that this film is actually made by Fuji and it is Provia 100F.
 

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darkosaric said:
Agfa Precisa CT100.
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AgfaPhoto Precisa CT 100


RowanBloemhof said:
Does DM also do development of E6?
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There is a Network over Europe ensuring pick up from stores, processing, taking back to stores run by a few industral finishers.
The largest of them runs many processing plants and has about 50% European market share.

Processing and printing of 135/C-41 will be fast, as it is done at all plants.
All other formats and processes will be sent to one certain plant.


Concerning the form the film will be returned (framed, un-ramed /cut, unframed-rolled) one has to inform. Choices are getting fewer.
Otherwise use a non-industrial lab.
 
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In the case of Agfa and AgfaPhoto it in addition means meanwhile a change of products!
With the exception of last stocks of german made APX (in addition to APX-new emulsion) and the Scala film.


Behind "AgfaPhoto" is a company doing mainly branding.
 
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Just a tip to RowanBloemhof (edit: as he seems to be in NL), you can take E6 in to any Hema branch with a photography counter (almost all Hemas seem to have such a counter) and pick up the transparencies a week later. They also do C41 develop only, as well as prints of course, and also black-and-white films/prints, and half-frame too. Plus all the expected digital services.

For those not in NL or BE, the Hema shops are a chain of non-food shops in almost every town in the country, so they can be very convenient for photographic services. In NL they send E6, possibly all their other services too(?), to the big Fujifilm lab near Tilburg.
 
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RowanBloemhof

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Interesting Martin. Thanks. To my knowledge Hema stopped b/w and slide years ago already.

Ive bought some film at Hema before. But never really dared to use there services. Heard alot of horror stories of scratched film, poor development etc. Last week however i returned with a developed roll from our local photography store. And to my astounishment i found my film badly scratched.

So, perhaps next month after my trip il give Hema a chance.
 

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Is there any definitive information on which emulsion this film uses? It seems that everyone agrees it's a rebranded Fuji emulsion, but I can't find any consensus on which one.

The price is extraordinarily good for any E-6 film. I may have to ask some German colleagues to bring me a present on their next visit.

-NT
 

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RowanBloemhof said:
Interesting Martin. Thanks. To my knowledge Hema stopped b/w and slide years ago already.
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They stopped selling their own-brand film but all the services are still on offer. I forgot to mention they accept all the 120 formats for C41 too, in which case I recommend choosing the 13cm size prints, if you need them off 6x6, as tiny little 10x10 enprints don't really give much scope for selecting a frame for further attention.

Also, bear in mind that the people behind the desk mostly hand out digital-enlargements all day, and so probably don't know their way around their own pricelist. I've been using them for C41 and E6 for a decade and not had any problems though in future, if I don't do it myself, I'll be taking my C41 developing to a local specialist shop that processes on the premises (an expanding market apparently).
 
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It is Fuji Provia, 1st or 2nd generation emulsion. Not Provia 100F, i.e. 3rd generation.
Ask Henning. He has done extensive tests.
 
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DM also processes film for less than 1 Euro per roll if you don't need prints, just dev. This includes 120 format.
 
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