Re: Seattle Film Works Process SFW-XL

On 2006-02-14 18:16:46 -0500, Bill Tuthill <can@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> ellis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes [movie film] produces goo when run through regular C41 lines
>> 
>> Didn't SFW stop using that movie film long ago?
> 
> Yes they did, but after they switched to Agfa C-41 film,
> they still didn't print "C-41" on the cassettes, so you had to
> send the film back to them for processing, anyway.
> 
> G- Blank <Stubborn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My advice is to just toss them out.  Exposed film degrades rapidly
>>> and the images will probably not be very good.
>> 
>> Rapidly? I have seen film developed after forty years that still has
>> a latent image YMMV.
> 
> Color film?  I didn't know they even made color film 40 years ago.
> I once left an exposed roll of Supra 800 for just one year, and
> the images printed from it were totally unacceptable.

You must be kidding! I was just looking at my dad's old Kodachrome 
movies from around 1950. Kodachrome was introduced in about 1935. Color 
film is far older than 40 years!!
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