Lul, what? I bought 5 meters of 120 Foto 100 from them. Granted, it was pre-war, but why would this change? I can ask them about a smaller order, if you want.
As for delivery, I can tell you what I know. Yes, I trade a little on Etsy, I don’t want to advertise myself, I’m not here for that. I ship to the USA through an intermediary. To Poland, parcels go by road, from Poland to the USA Feed Ex, and via the USA UPS. A package 15x10x10cm weighing about 0.35 kg costs $10. If when you need help or advice on delivery from Ukraine, I can always advise, but unfortunately I can’t on other issues.I would have to get pre-ordered rolls to pay for the order even if a smaller order could be arranged, as it would still probably be quite costly for the film and shipping.
Glad to see a fellow countryman. In general, I am from the Donbass and in 2015 I tried the Russian vodka "Russian Ice", the one that Stallone advertises. This is poison. Now I don't even believe that they can even make vodka.Well, film is a weapon. Kind of. Tasma still can make film, but they didn't coat anything except Type 42 and Type 25 aerial recon films for decades.
I would be interested to hear the answer, but I would probably need to make arrangements prior to ordering to get the money. I would have to get pre-ordered rolls to pay for the order even if a smaller order could be arranged, as it would still probably be quite costly for the film and shipping.
I would also be interested in the data sheets for their film, as I cannot find them online. This would be very helpful.
Their datasheets seem to be just copypaste from Soviet GOSTs, so they won't be very helpful. Hopefully when I get the factory tour they promised me, I'll be able to talk to technologists and get more info.
You're interested in 61.5mm non-perf., right?
Here are the price list, the latest I could find, and the datasheets Dmitry sent me in May. I used their Foto 100, it's a very sharp film, it is closer to 64 or even 50iso and it seems to have less sensitivity behind a red filter, as stated in the datasheet. Foto 200 datasheet states it has IR sensitivity.
Thanks! It looks like Photo 100 is the only 120-width film on the price sheet, so I’m guessing 200 and 400 are not currently manufactured in that size. Curious that the 200 iso film is IR sensitive, but the 400 ISO film doesn’t seem to be.
Reading through the price sheet, I noticed that they list t packaging, including, black light proof bags for film (might look into that at some point) and, interestingly, “Light-proof paper, black and red, 1 kg – 1.50 EUR”. I wonder what this is, and if it’s what I think it is, can it be used as 120 backing paper?
That paper is the stuff soviet bw paper was packaged in, "неактиничная бумага". Astrum used it to package orders for some time, and I think they've run out of it
Glad to see a fellow countryman. In general, I am from the Donbass and in 2015 I tried the Russian vodka "Russian Ice", the one that Stallone advertises. This is poison. Now I don't even believe that they can even make vodka.
Бачив ваш коментар у інсті, вони не розколються. По-перше чел, що її веде сам не в курсах, по-друге самі співвласники аструма все ще намагаються вберегти секрет Полішинеля. Їх треба додавити на тему екскурсії, щоб нормально поговорити з технологом. У Свеми є усі шанси ожити хоча б на рівні Ferrania з їх Р30, особливо якщо вціліла документація на лінійку ФН. Але і якщо ні, у мене є рецептура плівок типу СЧС 30х років. По суті, усе що відділяє Свему від нормальної роботи-лиш одна успішна кампанія на Kickstarter
That is completely incorrect.
Some fresh 9½ mm stock would be wonderful but there has never been any corresponding equipment in use behind the iron curtain with the exception of that at ORWO. At the moment only Film Ferrania seem to be in possession of 9½ perforators, if not Gevaert equipment had survived with Agfa-Gevaert until today. Löschner of Prague advertised a projector available in three versions, for the film formats 9½, 16 mm, and 8 mm in the thirties. A 9½ ALMO, however, hasn’t been seen thus far.
The 9½ market it dormant. Any one film manufacturer can take it with appropriate stocks. Yet, it takes the will and good marketing.
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Saw your comment on insta, they won't split. Firstly, the person who leads it is not in the know, and secondly, the co-owners of Astrum are still trying to protect Polishinel's secret. They must be added on the topic of the excursion in order to talk to the technologist normally. Svema has every chance to revive at least at the level of Ferrania with their P30, especially if the documentation for the FN line has survived. But even if not, I have a recipe for films of the 1930s. Basically, all that separates Svema from normal work is just one successful Kickstarter campaign
Despite everything, film continues to be produced in Ukraine. I want to ask if you know Svema, what do you think about it, how interesting could it be for you?
Svema
Not really, before death svema switched to 50-100-200/reporter lineuplooks like transposition
Yeeah, since 2013. Idk why, but the email form still works, at leastTheir website isn't updated since a while
Not really. Shops seem to not like to get their film, because it comes in cassettes without DX code, but it's because they only have equipment for manufacturing these cassettes. If you order directly, they are more than happy to sell as much as you needavailability is scarce
A section of it never was abandoned. It's still a drop in a sea, Svema was almost as big as Shostka city itself, but it's better than nothingSo a section of it was rehabilited?
Shops seem to not like to get Their film, because it comes in cassettes without DX code, but it's because they only have equipment for manufacturing these cassettes. If you order directly, they are more than happy to sell as much as you need
I have the understanding that the Astrum folks have fairly recently acquired the rights to use the SVEMA name. Before then, they had some of the equipment from the former plant, but had to use a new name, so they sold film as Astrum LLC. Now they can use the traditional name.
- one point is then that SVEMA is an ambiguous name, because most of the time it's about late remaining batches soviet SVEMA, and not so often to the new ASTRUM company. The floating brand naming affects the visibility of the new films.
I have the understanding that the Astrum folks have fairly recently acquired the rights to use the SVEMA name. Before then, they had some of the equipment from the former plant, but had to use a new name, so they sold film as Astrum LLC. Now they can use the traditional name.
9.5mm minox film has perforations? Huh, didn’t realize that. I thought it was just a plain strip of film.
Astrum acquired the trademark even before they bought the magnetic tape facility, and that was in 2020, 3 years ago.yet new Svema was listed for a while on runet shops
which brings up the question, are they likly to be able to fabricate Magnetic tape? I know that I have also purchased several SVEMA tape reels form another Ukranian Seller, ad a couple of example rolls of SVEMA audio Tape.Astrum acquired the trademark even before they bought the magnetic tape facility, and that was in 2020, 3 years ago.
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