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Return of 220 film?

There's nothing wrong with it per se. The problem is that rumours then start like "Cat Labs 80 is revived Panatomic X" or "Shanghai GP3 is Plus-x"....or everything else is Kentmere....

It probably all starts from a grain (sorry) of truth somewhere along the line - the whole Panatomic stuff came from New55 getting a batch of Shanghai made, then essentially stating it was 'like' the Panatomic-X variant used in Polaroid's Type 55 (which according to Bob Shanebrook shared a moniker with Panatomic-X, but had diverged massively for optimal performance with the Polaroid pods). If the Shanghai film does have any similarities to Kodak emulsions, it's more likely to be to pre-mid 50's ones - as opposed to 70's/80's ones of popular nostalgia. Anyone willing to put a sample of Shanghai though an electron microscope & see if it's polydisperse or of a more modern grain construction?
 
The person that I have been communicating with from Shanghai film re 220 is Yvonne Zhang. Payment directly to her for film.