Re: filmscanners: Neg film for scanning

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

I knew I had forgotten someone.  Yes, you are absolutely correct, I was 
trying to remember the third major doing this, which is of course, Agfa!
I haven't noted much from Ferannia in recent years, at least in Canada.

Black's Photo here uses (last time I checked, a few years ago) Fuji.

Thanks for correcting me.

Art

Hersch Nitikman wrote:

> Unless they have stopped doing it, Ferannia and Agfa have supplied a lot 
> of the 'house-brand' films.
> Hersch
> 
> At 07:59 PM 03/24/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> 
>> 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.  Unless the printing is 
>> in something like Russian or Iraqi, the odds of the film being 
>> anything other than the 3 mentioned above, are close to nil.
>> 
>> Look to the processor if you find quality control problems.
>> 
>> (Off Topic) Art
>>