Dominique De Bast
Film God
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted March 25, 2015 05:29 AM
I've just received the latest copy (no 161) of the magazine mentionned in the title of this thread. It seems that the situation about the availability of 9.5 filmstock is not (or was not a the time of printing) clear for some ninefivers. Color City in France still has filmstock but is about being out of it. They are willing to keep on providing 9.5 filmstock as there is still a demand for it. They are waiting for Ferrania filmstock. As I said it in another thread, Ferrania has not given yet a sastisfactory answer. When that happens, 9.5 filmstock will be readily available again. At the moment, the remaining rolls are sold on a limited quantity by head Policy. There is a good stock of 3x8.80 metres and 14 meters reloads for cartriges but 30 meters rolls are almost sold out. Again, it is supposed to be a temporarily situation. If Ferrania can provide 35 mm unperfored stock on large cores at reasonnable price, Color city has the machines (that belong to the French club) to reperfor. Their website, as mentionned in the magazine, has been closed for a while (I don't know why) but is now reopen. An Australian ninefiver (I hope he will read this) said that he had some communications troubles with the French company and that he would not send them (for this reason) the films he purchased for processing. This is a mistake as the films sold by Color City are process paid. So, if you send the films to another lab, you will pay twice for the developpment ! Sadly, not answered e-mails are not a rarity and that happened several times to me with several films dealers. The British magazine says that black and white fikmstock is not available at all. This is not completely correct as German ninefiver sells titling black and white stock (a black text on a white support appears white on a black support when the filmstock is process). The same person has a reperfoarting machine and can reperfor black and white (or colour) film from another gauge (16 mm for example) if you need it. A last point that attracted my attention about filming in the article about filmstock is that a 9.5 Pathe webo camera was sold for £ 174 on EbayUK. The question was to know if the buyer and the bidders wanted to use it to shoot or to display it in a window. I have of course not the answer to this question but can say that there is an electric 9.5 Ligonie (actually a modified Beaulieu) camera on sale on a French at the price of 580 euros. For that amount you receive no lens and the seller warns you that the battery is to be replaced. The questions about that camera were to know if it is working, so it let you think that the intention is to use that camera to shoot with it. To come back to the filmstock availability, we will probably know more about that in June when Ferrania will have brought their products on the market and will (hopefully) have more time to answer requests like Color City's one.
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Dominique
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