Largest size color print film

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This is really just a '3:30 AM and I'm still awake thinking' type of question:

What is the largest color print film available (not bulk roll special order)?
Do they make color print film for LF?
 

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Not exactly color "print" film, but yes. Provia is too, I believe.

So how come I have colour prints from Velvia on my wall?

Or, have you made the jump from "Print" to meaning "Negative"? If so, show me anyone enlarging colour 8x10" colour negative film.

LF colour film is scanned nowadays, rendering the "print" component ink based, not light.

Even in days of yore, positives were printed via Cibachrome, Ilfochfome etc. Ergo, the "print" nomenclature has never been the sole domain of negative colour film.

So, Velvia is exactly print film.
 

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Common usage is "color negative film" and "color print film" being used interchangeably for "color negative film". Actually, in the industry "color print film" is most often used for ECP or the film used for making prints for motion picture projection. In this thread, we have been assuming "color negative film" as that intended by the OP.

After all, its intent is for making prints, whereas color positive or color reversal (again used interchangeably) is or are :D products that are not intended for amateur print making without the use of special products to create various masks.

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So how come I have colour prints from Velvia on my wall?

Or, have you made the jump from "Print" to meaning "Negative"? If so, show me anyone enlarging colour 8x10" colour negative film.

LF colour film is scanned nowadays, rendering the "print" component ink based, not light.

Even in days of yore, positives were printed via Cibachrome, Ilfochfome etc. Ergo, the "print" nomenclature has never been the sole domain of negative colour film.

So, Velvia is exactly print film.

8x10 color negative film can be enlarged or contact printed.

Velvia is thought of as a slide or transparency film before it is a "print film." That's not to say it can't be printed. In the interest of getting the OP the information he wanted, the only "jump" I've made is assuming that he meant color negative film. If you want to extend the discussion to include anything that can be scanned, printed, and slapped in a wall, then certainly we can talk about Velvia and Provia and a million other things.

In any case, Wikipedia defines it as such: "Print film produces a negative image when it is developed, requiring it to be reversed again when it is printed onto photographic paper." And, of course, Wikipedia is never wrong.
 
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