from what I've read, Svema's old machinery still exists and that's what astrum uses to make their films.
from what I've read, Svema's old machinery still exists and that's what astrum uses to make their films.Surprised to hear about Astrum being more than few dudes gluing "Astrum" logo onto someone else's product, AFAIK nothing's left of Svema. This article says that the last batch of film was made in 2003 and Astrum is simply re-packaging Chinese product.
Surprised to hear about Astrum being more than few dudes gluing "Astrum" logo onto someone else's product, AFAIK nothing's left of Svema. This article says that the last batch of film was made in 2003 and Astrum is simply re-packaging Chinese product.
Astrum for 35mm color film, yes, kinda. They don't package consumer films anymore, but they are still active an coating NDT, Aerial, and color negative films, just only in bulk order and mainly b2b. That said, they'll happily ship you a bulk roll if you email the right person.
coating NDT, Aerial, and color negative films
I only know of a handful of companies that are capable of coating a c41 emulsion. Fuji, Kodak, Ilford, Inoviscoat, Tasma and Astrum.
Astrum has no coating facilities at all.
Ilford has never manufactured a C-41 colour film.
You overlooked completely:
Agfa has colour coating facilities, but long time had not made tollcoatings.
Lucky has colour coating facilities too.
My understanding was that Lucky's coating machine has been dismantled and repurposed for doing other multilayer coatings on different substrates, at least that's what a supplier had told me.
When I spoke with someone from Astrum they did tell me that they did contract coating, but for all I know they could be contracting the coating to Tasma and slitting the webs.
If we're going to count Agfa then we might as well include Minolta as well. I believe they are still the ones making the coaters.
While my fresh Lomo 800 is made in the USA, my fresh Lomo 100 120 colour film says Made in China.
Kodacolor VR 1000 makes perfect sense. I'm prepared to go with that conclusion.
Kodacolor VR 1000 makes perfect sense. I'm prepared to go with that conclusion.
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