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tjaded

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Hi all--
I'm doing a little "research" project for a business proposal...maybe you can help. I'm trying to make a list of companies that are making film & what type of film they produce. Something like this:

Kodak: Color Pos./Color Neg./B&W Neg. various sizes
Fuji: Color Pos./Color Neg./B&W Neg. various sizes
Ilford: B&W Neg. various sizes
Maco: B&W Neg. various sizes
Rollei: B&W Neg. various sizes
Efke: B&W Neg. various sizes

Additions would be great, as long as they are available here in the U.S. I really appreciate any help you can offer (especially with companies offering color!)

Thanks,
Matt
 

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Who's makin' film
for your old lady
While you been
out makin' film?
 

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Ferrania?

I'm pretty sure that they still are cranking out house branded c-41 products.
 

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Foma. No colour to my knowledge, but they make B&W negative and positive film.
 

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Agfa/Gevart in Belgium makes some color negative film that is marketed by Roelli/Maco. Roelli Scanfilm
Ferrania still makes (to my knowledge) some color negative film, in 35mm.
Lucky in China makes color negative film, and b/w negative film.
Era in China makes some film.
 

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Shanghai in China make 120 B & W rollfilm & sheet film available on the US ebay site.

Ferrania's colour films are made in 110 & APS as well as 35mm. They only recently stopped making it in 126 cartridges (the last manufacturer to do so)

Era's films are black & white neg (35mm & sheet film) - again available on ebay
 

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Ferrania. I assume they still make film.

Ferrania is sold as house films and under Solris. I have seen 100, 200, and 400 in 35mm, other, as already posted, have seen 110 and APS, but the only 110 and APS that I have noticed here in the Phoenix Market is Fuji and Kodak.
 
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Maco and Rollei are not film manufacturers, AFAIK, they package, label and sell film manufactured by others
 
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Ferrania film

Uh, your spelling is incorrect. Ferrania uses the name SOLARIS for its C-41 negative films.

Just a historical note: Ferrania is--AFAIK--a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 3M Corporation, or at least it was when I worked for them in the 1980s. I worked in their photofinishing division, 3M Photo, and we were buying both paper and film from the parent company.

We did a lot of private label film, and if memory serves, the film I remember seeing come into the plant gradually shifted from Italian to U.S. manufacture between 1980 and 1984. Don't take this as gospel, as I wasn't intimately involved with that end of things.

I remember asking if any of Ferrania's B&W products were available, and I was told that they weren't being imported, as the market was pretty much in the hands of Kodak, Ilford & AGFA.
 

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Just a historical note: Ferrania is--AFAIK--a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 3M Corporation, or at least it was when I worked for them in the 1980s. I worked in their photofinishing division, 3M Photo, and we were buying both paper and film from the parent company.

We did a lot of private label film, and if memory serves, the film I remember seeing come into the plant gradually shifted from Italian to U.S. manufacture between 1980 and 1984. Don't take this as gospel, as I wasn't intimately involved with that end of things.

I remember asking if any of Ferrania's B&W products were available, and I was told that they weren't being imported, as the market was pretty much in the hands of Kodak, Ilford & AGFA.


Actually, according to this page they were spun off as part of Imation, and then Ferrania itself was sold again in 1999: "Ferrania Technologies is acquired by Schroder Ventures - Europe (now Permira). The company is launched as an independent company."
 

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Ilford Imaging manufactures 2 colour films available in the USA.
 

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These are the `Ilfochrome Micrographics´films `M´and `P´(different gammas).
They are direct-positive dye-bleach films, of course slow, with a a void in the spectral sensitivity and very expensive. They should be available in different sizes (incl. DP 35mm) in the USA via Calumet.

I assume they are produced as their `papers´ in the Ilford Imaging plant in Marly (CH).
 

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These are the `Ilfochrome Micrographics´films `M´and `P´(different gammas).
They are direct-positive dye-bleach films, of course slow, with a a void in the spectral sensitivity and very expensive. They should be available in different sizes (incl. DP 35mm) in the USA via Calumet.

I assume they are produced as their `papers´ in the Ilford Imaging plant in Marly (CH).

These are films for "your old lady"?
 

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These are films for "your old lady"?

Give AgX credit he's German and so very precise :D

My Old lady, if she hears you calling her that she'd kill you . . . uses Fuji colour film because she's been shown the errors of using Kodak . . . .

I've preferrred Fuji for colour going back to the E4 films, Fuji colour has always been far more accurate.

Ian
 

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Paul,
I once watched a film devoted to old ladies handling arsenic. Thus I thought that very lady could handle such films...

(By the way, that movie was the last one using the whole stage Technicolor process.)
 
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Paul,
I once watched a film devoted to old ladies handling arsenic. Thus I thought that very lady could handle such films...

(By the way, that movie was the last one using the whole stage Technicolor process.)

My wife is a Royaltiy Mystery Writer, I dont want to give any more ideas.
 

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Good morning, Ian Grant;

Thank you for providing a proper recognition for AgX. Yes, there are people out here who still appreciate technical precision.

Enjoy;

Ralph Javins

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