Kodak planning to replace remjet on vision 3 films

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Not in the US, but a shop in Belgium has some 250D & 500T in 35mm 36 exposure rolls for €10.99

Filmriss Cosmo 250D 135/36exp C41! (no remjet but ahu)

This film doesn't have a Remjet coating, but the new Kodak AHU coating, and can therefore be developed in the standard C-41 chemistry
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Filmriss Cosmo 500T 135/36exp C41! (no remjet maar ahu)

This film doesn't have a Remjet coating, but the new Kodak AHU coating, and can therefore be developed in the standard C-41 chemistry
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Sounds like it's a cost savings for labs, once it's a done deal. I'm sure it's going to take some getting used to. Getting rid of all the carbon black will be a win for the environment.
 

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"addition of an anti-halation protective undercoat layer (“AHU”) on the emulsion side of the film, which washes away during processing"


Is this a silver AHU layer or a dye-based layer?
 

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Raghu Kuvempunagar said:
"addition of an anti-halation protective undercoat layer (“AHU”) on the emulsion side of the film, which washes away during processing"


Is this a silver AHU layer or a dye-based layer?
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Kodak Enhances Vision3

Kodak's redesign of its Vision3 film stock removes the disposable, carbon-based remjet backing and replaces it with an advanced anti-halation technology.
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Does this mean that bleach bypass processing wouldn't be possible with the new films?
 
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koraks said:
That's a good point. I guess it'll be possible, but you'll end up with an extra layer of density. May not be a problem if you scan the film if the density is somewhat limited.
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Or maybe in movie production, bleach bypass is applied on the print rather than the negative in which case no adjustments in processing are required.
 

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In movie production I think bleach bypass is (was) generally done on the original recording film. But I doubt many productions use it anymore. In principle, bleach bypass could be done on the print film, but I doubt this was done.
 

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koraks said:
In movie production I think bleach bypass is (was) generally done on the original recording film. But I doubt many productions use it anymore. In principle, bleach bypass could be done on the print film, but I doubt this was done.
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"Skip-bleach techniques can be applied to the processing of the camera original negative, the intermediate positive (IP), duplicate negative (DN) or final print, or any combination of these stages."

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