Seattle Film Works, Dale Labs and others were re-spooling EastmanColor 5254 and 5247 movie stock. It has a black anti-halation coating that is removed as part of the developing process. If you run it through a mini-lab it will ruin the chemistry, gunk up the rollers and probably ruin any other film that gets processed before anything is cleaned. It prints with a whole different filter pack as compared to other "common" color negative films.
-p Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Seattle Film Works sold respooled movie film. It wasn't horrible but > it also wasn't C41 process or intended for standard photofinishers' > use. It was designed for printing onto movie stock for a positive and > no one had the setups for it. > > I don't know what John's customer had, but I'd just call them and see > if they would come in with the index print again so you can identify > the frames. PITA but weird stuff happens... ! > > Godfrey > > > On Sep 20, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > >> If I remember, Seattle Film Works used to sell film >> occasionally without edge numbering. But I think it >> was a glitch. It was terrible film, I shot four rolls >> of it in Washington State back in 1990. Just awful >> color. Otherwise, no, never seen that before with any >> maker, Kodak, Fuji, Agfa, or Ilford. >> >> -Brendan >> --- John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I run a photo mini-lab. I've mentioned that before. >>> >>> I had a customer come in yesterday, wanting >>> re-prints from some >>> negatives. They'd been processed by another store in >>> our chain, and she >>> had the index print. I wrote down the frame numbers >>> from the index print >>> and how many of each she wanted on the inside flap >>> of one of our 4x6 >>> print wallets and left it for my relief to print. >>> >>> Got to work today, and there's a note that there's >>> no numbers so the lab >>> operator didn't know what to print. >>> >>> Before I started making a fuss, I looked at the >>> negatives, and lo & >>> behold, there's no edge print whatsoever; no frame >>> numbers, no film >>> identifiers ... NADA! >>> >>> Had to have been C-41 film, 'cause that's all our >>> labs do. Looked like >>> regular 35 mm, but there's nothing on the negative >>> except the customer's >>> images. >>> >>> Anyone have thoughts on this? >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> ______________ >> Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with >> Yahoo! FareChase. >> http://farechase.yahoo.com/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net