Over here, geocachers are always after empty ones. They prefer the black but will wrap black or camouflage tape around the clearsOver here: all
The industrial labs sort them out as PE plastic waste. Amateurs and small labs will add them to the packaging materials waste collection.*
*At this route the black canisters likely will be incinerated as not detectable by the sorting sensors.
When I speak of most colonels I virtually declare them to be nutsTechnically, EZed.
But the overwhelming influence of the US means you do hear a lot of EZee.
I continue to fight the almost hopeless battle with "lefftenant" (lieutenant). When faced with the response "it isn't spelled that way", I usually generally riposte with "How do you pronounce colonel?"
I still recall the song "Zee in love" in my early teens before I had any knowledge of the U.S. alphabet and wondered if Zee was the sort of nasty consequences we teenagers had been warned about in what passed for sex lessonsZed. Always will be. The only time I say the American way, is with the band, ZZTop.
Speaking of pronunciation of lieutenant, a reporter on the TV news...youngster... pronounced it the American way when talking about our new "lefftenant" governor. I almost had a heart attack!!
And it's a Zed28 up here... just saying.
Anyone tried this stuff?
A Gritty film from the description, no super super smooth rendition and definitely strikes a clear distinction from the clinical look of digital.
The adds says: ‘If you prefer additional detail in your shadows, and some attractive blooming in your highlights, you can also expose EZ400 rated at ISO 200, without altering the standard development times (for ISO 400)”.
The comb of grain and blooming sounds fantastic, I must say!
Anyone tried this film and have any thoughts they’d care to share?
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What amazed me was how many of the commentators appeared eager to buy what they appeared to think was a new film simply because he sells it as EZ400 but I suppose it's a bit like the Fantome 8 and Babylon 13 effect. Newcomers to film or a section of them at least, are drawn to this kind of marketing...
It is for people who only want a few rolls, and do not want to deal with the hassle of buying a bulk loader and all that gear needed with it, and then deal with having both ends of the film exposed etc.
That is just one part of it. Most people just don't want to bulk load. Most people want to buy one or two rolls at their convenience.For bulk loading you do not need ANY gear you do not have in house. At best you can acquire a reloadable cassette, but even that is no necessity, though I advise it. Neither will you have exposed any end of the new film.
EZ400, Secret Agent etc are just direct rebrands of the exact same film in the same lengths. So it Arista (it is Foma). Fantome and Babylon is the only place where you can get them as individual rolls.
The offcial reseller of Orwo films, a german outlet, offers various Orwo taking, intermediate and print films as type 135 conversion via Ebay.
A normal person will just go to their camera shop, or regular online source (in the US it could be B&H, Adorama, Freestyle, in the UK it could be analoguewonderland, in the EU Fotoimpex, macodirect etc).
Guess how many carry Orwo film? Zero. None.
You keep proving my point. A normal person will just go to their camera shop, or regular online source (in the US it could be B&H, Adorama, Freestyle, in the UK it could be analoguewonderland, in the EU Fotoimpex, macodirect etc).
Guess how many carry Orwo film? Zero. None. Zilch.
Yet you think that telling me about an ebay store - that you don't even provide the name to - makes it a main stream product? Don't forget, Photrio is an enthusiast site that frankly has next to nothing to do with the real world when it comes to the average film enthusiast. We are total film nerd geeks here. And yet most of us don't know where this Orwo stuff is sold as a 135 conversion?
I did a search and I think perhaps you mean core-tek on ebay. They seem to be selling individually rolled film. Not sure how this one ebay store as its only presence competes on other manufacturers/resellers who make their film widely and easily available.
Your ebay store sells Orwo 21 for $8 for 24 exposures. Not 36 exposures, but 33% less at 24.
Lomo Babylon 13 (which I think is the same) is $9 from Macodirect. For 36 exposures.
I havent even taken shipping into account. The ebay store charges $9 per roll to ship.
So your way is not only much more convoluted and harder to find, but also much more expensive.
EZ400, Secret Agent etc are just direct rebrands of the exact same film in the same lengths. So it Arista (it is Foma). Fantome and Babylon is the only place where you can get them as individual rolls.
I don't know if I say that, but it is not what I meanSo you are saying that EZ400 is not Foma film which is available in normal rolls but is another maker's film (ORWO?)
If you had looked it up yourself, you would have seen that there are even few brick&mortor shops who got these type 135 Orwo films. Amongst them a classic camera store and a store solely devoted to analog photgrapgy.
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So you are saying that EZ400 is not Foma film which is available in normal rolls but is another maker's film (ORWO?) and can only be obtained from rebranders who buy large rolls and then repackage it in cassettes? So if you want EZ400 in cassettes you either buy it from Ribsy or some other rebrander as EZ400 in Ribsy's case or you cannot buy it all. It is not available any other way
Does this mean that EZ400 is available in cassette form from other sources but will be called by another name so that EZ400 is a rebrand of a rebrand? Do you know who those sources are and what they charge for what is EZ400?
Thanks
pentaxuser
Who? Which shops? You keep mentioning places to buy it, without mentioning the places.
This is so weird. Why couldnt you say from the very beginning 'you can buy this film at...' and name the place?
Do you not understand that being so cryptic is proving my point about availability.
And why didn't you address the fact that your one apparent location on ebay is MUCH more expensive than the mainstream places that offer the same product? Lomo is much cheaper than your apparent dealer.
The offcial reseller of Orwo films, a german outlet, offers various Orwo taking, intermediate and print films as type 135 conversion via Ebay.
Fine and thanks for the clarification It just seemed that somehow ORWO and rebranders performing a service to film users which they are in the case of turning large rolls into cassettes seemed to get tangled up with whether EZ400 was available in cassettes which as it is Foma and Arista is clearly the caseNo, I am saying EZ400 is just Foma. As is Arista (Freestyle's brand). The difference is Arista is cheaper than Foma, EZ is more expensive.
The Lomo films are Orwo films cut down to 36exp rolls. As AGX has shown, their offerings are quite the bargain as Lomo's version is much cheaper than the one shop doing the same thing on ebay.
I totally agree. I bought 5 rolls, knowing full well it was rebranded and more costly. Still delighted with my purchase.I'd say think of it as supporting one of the better, more informative YouTube film photography channels. Channels like Ribsy's, SFLaB, Naked Photographer, Steve O'Nions,Old Camera Guy, and Matt Marrash cannot be cheap to run; not only is there the cost of film and chemistry, there's the video equipment (and not just cameras; my desktop computer, perfectly adequate for editing scans close to 100 megapixels, just goes to its knees if I try to edit video). They're helping keep film alive by keeping it in the public consciousness via YouTube -- and I'd guess Patreon doesn't bring in much money (at least my partner's Patreon doesn't, though it's not photography related).
Buying stuff from these channels -- Steve and Roger's prints, Ribsy's film, Greg's darkroom towels, aprons, and t-shirts (and prints) -- helps make these channels pay enough to keep the "love" in "labor of love" production.
After all, does anybody really think, even for a moment, that it could be anything else but a rebranded stock?
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