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
Michael Moore wrote:
Alan.... Many of the so called generic or
"supermarket brand" are made
by major manufacturers (konica, etc.) It sounds to me like your
scratches and muck problem is a Laboratory problem, not a film
problem... try to find a good custom lab where they use a dip and
dunk
processor as opposed to a roller transport processor... the
difference
is that with dip and dunk, the film is hung from a hanger and
weighted
so it can be dipped into and out of the process chemistry without
any
thing such as rollers touching it... roller transports are ok if
they
are meticulously cared for (which most consumer labs don't) but
they
still have their problems... a professionally run dip and dunk line
is
absolutely the best way to process your negs... you should see a
huge
difference in the scratches and muck problem.
Mike M.
