I received an email from Analogue Wonderland about "Candido" 800 ISO colour negative C41 film yesterday. Their price isn't bad, indeed the email was talking about how great it was to have an affordable high speed colour film. A bit of googling found the people who may be supplying it, where I was able to order some rolls for £2 less than AW offer it. Possibly UK based as the postage was very reasonably Royal Mail 1st class.
Colour me a little sceptical because the FAQ refers to "Ramjet" anti-halation and is very sketchy about where this film is made. They say it has a shelf life of two years after purchase. Sample shots on their website aren't stellar but I'm going to try it.
EDIT: I checked out the reviews on their site which have more sample pictures from customers and this is certainly some sort of motion picture film with the remjet removed. Has a load of cheap 500T hit the market recently? Some of the customer photos look very good. They also seem to offer a warmer (daylight balanced?) 400 ISO film with promises of another 400 ISO and a 200 ISO C41 film "coming soon"....all at competitive prices. Indeed the 800 is about as cheap as it's ever likely to get.
Has anyone else come across this?
Candido800 Colour Film
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I've also been fed an ad via social media for "Poly Film Labs" who seem to offer a lot of very reasonably priced services and film. They are open about using large bulk rolls of film like Ektachrome and Vision 3 to sell 36 exposure cassettes at reasonable prices. I've ordered 3 of their Vison 3 500T too. They do explain this still has the remjet so I'll probably send it to them for processing as their prices are very reasonable. Of possible interest is that they offer quite frankly insanely low prices for cine film processing. I believe they also trade as Kerboros Productions Ltd...as that was the name on my payment. Poly Film Labs are on Facebook and Instagram, and they seem a friendly bunch.
Please note I am not recommending these two companies yet, as I am yet to receive or use any products/services. I have ordered film from both, and will be sending some super 8 Tri-X to Poly Lab in August. This is more "Heads up, especially UK folk, you might want to try these people".
I've just shot my second roll of Candido and coincidentally saw a post from them on Instagram this morning to the effect that after feedback from customers they are switching to DX coded metal cassettes. This should prevent the handful of incidents of fogging that have been reported by customers (first or last frame) and the DX coding is to be welcomed. It does add a pound to the cost of each film.
Good to note that they're listening to their customers.
@pentaxuser The fogging is suspected to be the plastic cassette.
I read their post as meaning that they're not using the plastic cassettes at all any more, and have moved (or are moving) to metal cassettes which are also DX coded.
Thanks. That's a new one on me I haven't used these films but assuming that there is not a specific link between plastic cassettes and the particular film in question then all I can say is that when I used the plastic re-usable cassettes from Jessops with a variety of b&w films I never noticed fogging. I wonder what the link can be?
Can I take that there is no choice any longer about opting for non DX coded at £1 less?
pentaxuser
Today I finally received the ordered rolls of this Superia 400.
If that’s the case does it mean the anti-halation has gone, meaning halation will be evident, and possibly light piping?
Halation, yes. Light piping, no; the base Vision3 is on isn't very prone to that AFAIK.
It's basically Cinestill if this is cine film with the remjet removed (not ramjet; that's something entirely different).
so Candido 800 will come out a bit blue in daylight if used without a warming filter.
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