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Topic: Where to purchase fresh 9.5mm film
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Robert Neia
Film Handler
Posts: 65
From: Palm Springs, Florida,USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted January 15, 2017 01:24 AM
Hi everyone, it's been quite a while since I've shot with 9.5mm. I wanted to get back into it, but don't know where I can purchase fresh 9.5mm film. I've ordered 9.5mm film from a store in the U.K. a while back, but I don't have that store's contact information, nor can I remember its name. I don't have any 9.5mm cassettes, so I was looking for a service that would loan me a cassette along with the film and I would return it along with my film and have it processed there. That was how I used to get my film, that is.
I tried googling and looking on here for sources. Wolf accepts orders, but only if you have an empty cartridge to load the film in. Is there anyone else that you would recommend?
It doesn't really matter if I end up shooting with B&W film or color, this stuff is hard to find as it is, so I'm not going to be picky.
Thanks very much!
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Dominique De Bast
Film God
Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted April 25, 2017 12:16 PM
Here are the latest news about the black and white stock. A film test has been showed in Calella and the results are good. It is fresh, newly manufactured 100 asa film. The contrast is good and it is a real black and white film, not sepia. Mr Otte from Germany reperfored it and his work is perfect. He got film to reperfor when he was in Calella, so when he will have reperfored the 35 mm unperford stock to 9.5, it will be available for everyone. Mr Otte has first to cut the 300 mt reel in smaller lengts (120 mt seem to be the best for him), then the 35 mm has to be cut in three strips of 9.5 film (with a little lost of course) and only then he can perfor. All this has to be done in the dark so that work will take time. The 9.5 film will be sent to Spain to be put on 30 mt spools but there is no doubt that if anyone wishes smaller (or larger lenghts) that can be discussed with the Spanish club (the owner of the stock). It should also be possible to pay the Spanish club and have the stock sent immediately to you if you don't need it on a spool (or if you can send an empty spool to Mr Otte). All this is new so discussion is the word of the day. The process of the film shown in Calella was made by an amateur. It was good but not perfect (following festivals followers standards, the main problem was that on small sections of the film there was some visible residue of one of the chemical used). So a lab (in Spain) was contacted and agreed to process 9.5 (they already process super 8 and 16 with professionnal results) but need time to adapt their machine to be able to handle 9.5. To avoid any dispappointments, the Spanish club, in his official communication says that everything should be ready by the end of the year but unofficially things could go quicker and I understand that one or two months may not an impossible time to have something on the market. Once black and white film is available for everyone, I will of course announce it here. I had also confirmation that a solution for colour stock is still looked for (but by the French club in this case) ; a feedback is still waited
Mr Otte, the German hero who reperfors 35 mm film to 9.5
Mr Gassó, the Spanish ninefiver who is making possible the return of black and white 9.5 filmstock.
Sorry for the poor quality of these two pictures ; they were taken with my mobile phone as I had a (now solved) problem with my camera.
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Dominique
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