Re: filmscanners: Neg film for scanning

["Alan Tyson" <AlanTyson@bknowl.freeserve.co.uk>]

I have in my hand a Tesco (leading UK supermarket chain)
pack of 8x36 400ASA neg films, which cost me 12 ukpounds.
This is 30% of the cost of Kodak Supra 400, which, I've been
tempted to try because of its anti-scratch coating. I get
lots of random scratch trouble from several different labs.

The Tesco pack says on it "Produced in the E.U. and packed
in the UK". I think this means it was made in one of a
handful of plants in the EU. Do I remember correctly that 3M
had a plant in Italy? Who owns it now? It is the 'Ferrania'
plant I remember from my youth? Then there are the E.German
plants ('Orwo' many years ago). Do they still exist? Has
Konica got a European manufacturing base?

Any info gratefully received.

Alan T

----- Original Message -----
From: Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Neg film for scanning


> Mike is right.  There are no "supermarket" brands.
3M/Scotch used to be
> a main supplier of these no-brand films, but I think they
left that biz.
>   So most, if not all North American supermarket brands
are either
> rebranded Fuji or Konica/Sakura, both of which are decent
films, and
> even Kodak supplies some unbranded films now.