Seattle Film Works Film

[JBrunner]

It's a little late, but this may be of interest. The words are not my own, I'm just passing them along.


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Remember the first weather men tried to super impose themselves in front of the weather map? They had that little line around them. That was because the 3-RGB layers of film were sensitive to the same wave lengths at the end of each color spectrum, thus you could see the cross over. Anyway the film industry change their blend to stop this crossover and created film that was too specific to spool and give to any ol soccer mom to shot it any where.

Uh, no. TV weather men have been chroma keyed electronically on video pretty much all along. The mattes have gotten better, but mattes were always electronic in regard to TV news. It wasn't until this video technology came around that weathermen got to be keyed into electronic maps. before that it was still video, but they used physical props. Nothing to do with the film industry at all.

 

[Bosaiya]

There's a lot of suspect stuff in what he said, but he (supposedly) knows his SFW film. I can't vouch for any of it, just passing along what I was told.

 

[JBrunner]

There's a lot of suspect stuff in what he said, but he (supposedly) knows his SFW film. I can't vouch for any of it, just passing along what I was told.

Right on. That bit I referred to sounds a bit like a guy on a barstool.

 

[Bosaiya]

You know how it is when some old guy who hasn't had his opinion asked in ages suddenly gets a question. To quote "It's getting him to shut up that's the trick."

 

[Kirks518]

braxus
From what you describe, it was motion picture film. That said, Seattle Film Works also sold regular C-41 color film under their brand. The trick is knowing how to tell the difference. Heres how. Pull the leader out and in a small spot on the emulsion side, scrape the emulsion off. I used my pocket knife. It is easy to do. Hold it up to the light, if were you scraped is clear or slightly pink, it is C-41 and can be safely processed C-41. If it is black or dark it is motion picture film. You are seeing the special anti-halation ramjet coating. Try it first on known C-41 unprocessed leaders so you know what to look for. We used this trick for many years and were able to process many rolls and look like heros too our customers. Then too, we knew which rolls to avoid. Remember, the customer is all ways right, but often doesn't know what they are talking about and sometimes will lie to you.

Michael

Rather than start a new thread, I figured I'd bring up the dead.

Did the above steps, it appears I have a roll of motion picture film from SFW (#5294, ASA 640). Am I correct in saying there is nothing that could be done with this stuff?

If nothing else, it seems they used refillable cartridges, so that's something.

 

[John Shriver]

If it's unexposed, throw it out and save the magazine.

If it's exposed and you care, good luck finding anyone to do ECN-2 processing on 3 feet of film. Dale Labs used to, but no more. Maybe Film Rescue. But expect to spend a lot of money to process it.

 

[benveniste]

If it's unexposed, throw it out and save the magazine.

If it's exposed and you care, good luck finding anyone to do ECN-2 processing on 3 feet of film. Dale Labs used to, but no more. Maybe Film Rescue. But expect to spend a lot of money to process it.

When I last checked late year, http://www.thecamerashop.com/ still processes ECN-II. $20 bucks for a 36-shot roll.

 

[Bill Burk]

How are the negatives? The film was probably printed to print film designed for movie projection to make the slides. If the negatives are okay, they could be reprinted.

Actually a good point. My 5247 negatives from the '70s are in good shape, though the 'printed' slides are badly faded.

I was pleased to discover I had a backup copy of all my originals.