There’s a seller on an online auction site selling fresh (2022 expiration date) 400 ISO 135-27 exp color negative film from Shanghai Juan Cheng Technology, Ltd. Seller states it’s “Made in China”. Is this possible? I didn’t think any company in China still manufactured color film? Perhaps I’m mistaken?
anything is possible. it is also possible that the film is imported as pancakes and packaged in China. Juan Cheng does sell a bunch of products - but I do not get the impression that they have coating facilities. The shanghai Photographic Materials business that made Shanghai film seems to have gone away.
yes, they did. it was one of the highest rated plants for quality in their system. Vaguely recall that Lucky film may have been involved. Kodak had licenced the technolgy for an older version of Kodacolour to Lucky.
yes, they did. it was one of the highest rated plants for quality in their system. Vaguely recall that Lucky film may have been involved. Kodak had licenced the technolgy for an older version of Kodacolour to Lucky.
Wow, no kidding about wasted money. The People's whatever it's called voted on the Hong Kong situation today 2800+ voted to support Beijing's plan, 0 voted no, 1 abstained.
A reseller in Shanghai just pull Kodak Ultramax 400 film out of it original package and put only 27 out of 36 frames into another canister with bulk film loader. Rebranding this film as "Shen Guang" color film. Then the 27 shots "made in China" film rolls were sold slightly cheaper than the geniune 36 shots Kodak ultramax 400. (Yep, you will see "Kodak ultramax400" on the edges of the film after development)
Finally, you got high quality color film from Chinese "factory" with "good deal"
A reseller in Shanghai just pull Kodak Ultramax 400 film out of it original package and put only 27 out of 36 frames into another canister with bulk film loader. Rebranding this film as "Shen Guang" color film. Then the 27 shots "made in China" film rolls were sold slightly cheaper than the geniune 36 shots Kodak ultramax 400. (Yep, you will see "Kodak ultramax400" on the edges of the film after development)
Finally, you got high quality color film from Chinese "factory" with "good deal"
More likely they're rerolling or relabeling cassettes intended for disposable cameras in the first place -- 27 is a very common frame count for those, and never mind if that count only applies if you can load the camera in the dark (hence avoid fogging the leader and first couple frames). I can usually get 27 frames on a properly marked 24 exposure roll with my Rollei 35, but that isn't going to happen with a full size 35mm SLR or my Kiev 4. One, maybe two extra frames (or one and a half, more commonly) is about the limit.