Mohmad,
All your postings show that you lack the most basic knowledge on photographic technologies.
What you well know is a heap of morsels of information that you form together to a heap of nonsense.
You do not even bother to read up your own threads from the past when being hinted at.
Repeatedly you mix up emulsion technologies.
Here in this very thread you say that Astrum is offering a colour fillm made from Svema emulsion based on Orwo formula for process AN-6. There never was such Svema film.
To stay with your claims: at very best there would be an entity in the Ukraine that has the very latest Orwo formula (Ektachrome-principle) in hand. But who then with a "Svema legacy" as you say would make that emulsion and coat it? In times when established manufacturers cancelled their colour film manufacture.
And why then stated your source in a mail you presented us to have import difficulties?
I do not want to belittle the offerings from Astrum. In certain cases they are unique. But in all cases one must question what one is going to get beyond the nice names the fims got.
I do not claim to be an international expert.
I am just a simple man.
- But I disagree with you, I do not say any nonsense.
- From science historically, that color photography actually began in Germany and a few months later Kodak presented its own color photography.
- The Second World War broke out, and Germany was occupied and divided into two parts. Scientists and experts split with it and devices and equipment were divided.
- The eastern part of the Soviet Union, later called itself "ORWO".
Communist philosophy requires that patents be shared with all who believe in or even sympathetic to communist thought.
- Therefore, the patents owned by (ORWO) were transferred, and they were transferred to (Ferrania) first, and from there to Fuji and Konica, and this happened, perhaps in return for money.
- On the eastern side, there are factories such as (Tesma) in Russia, and (Svema) in Ukraine are white and black factories, and production lines were built to manufacture the color film, which depends on the patents of the ORWO company under The predominance of communist thought that advocates the idea of the spread of knowledge and the spread of ideas and inventions.
After that, factories were built in other countries (based on ORWO patents).
Svema plant in Ukraine was mainly making all types of films, including aerial films.
When the analog photography was finished, the factory management found that the only category still receiving some popularity was aerial photography.
Most of the production lines were closed, except for the Air Film Production Line.
- After that, the factory was partially sold to an investor with the largest share, and the government sold the rest of the factory's lands and these lands were loaded into a residential project.
The company name has been changed from Savema to Astrum, and it still maintains the legacy documents and formats (Savema), manufactures air films and is committed to supplying these types to some governments. There are long-term contracts concluded for decades.
The investor bought part of the factory and with this part he bought some permanent customers.
Almost all African countries are committed to long-term contracts with this plant.
When the need for analog photography films started again, amateurs began corresponding with the sales department of this factory.
The sales department is confused, not knowing what to say.
The manufacturer no longer has the capacity to fill in films (35-36 images). Aerial photography does not depend on the use of these cartridges.
- Under pressure from the amateur photographers, the researchers at this factory began to re-research this matter, until they found a way to fill these films in cartridges.
Of course, your problem is that you do not want to admit that Astrum is still actually capable of producing a negative color film.
Whether or not you confess will not change anything.
This will become a fait accompli, whether you agree or disagree.
- It is only a matter of time.
But I ask God to give me the magic lantern that makes me able to travel to you in a jiffy so that I can observe the features of your face and your reaction when you see this negative color film and watch its results.
I don’t know what your situation will be?
- I am ready to sell everything I own in order to watch your reaction and the shock fill your face and eyes, (on the ground) I want the real scene and not a video or picture, you and everyone who shares your views and destructive thoughts.
- Your situation will be very embarrassing ,,
To fight all this war in order to sow despair and frustration.
Over and out.
