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Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on May 11, 2016, 07:31 AM:

Monday, I went to Color City to pick up three processed 9.5 films I shot in South America. I was lucky to be invited to see the developping machine. The lab is actually much bigger than it looks like from outside. It was not a guide tour so I could not take many pictures and I saw only a part of the place but I took these ones (I'm not as good as Steve for the comments, sorry) :

The name Ciné Dia still exists : Color City is now split in four different companies that have each a own activity and Ciné Dia is one of them.

The shop is no longer open full time for the public (due to the fact that still stock process and photo prints is, as we all know, reduced now).

The processing machine. One of the few left in the world.

The machine is capable of processing all the gauges.

Washing cuve.

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on May 11, 2016, 04:04 PM:

Excellent photos and report.
Thanks Dom.

Graham S

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on May 11, 2016, 04:10 PM:

fabulous post there Dominique!
Great to see you still have a laboratory available to you there. [Smile]

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on May 11, 2016, 06:29 PM:

Great read Dominique and yes it's great to see you can still get films developed somewhere in the world!
Was it a reasonable cost?

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on May 12, 2016, 04:14 AM:

Clinton, the 9.5 filmstock is sold process included. Due to the lack of 35 mm films, 9.5 is temporarily unaviable but if Ferrania will be able to provide large core film of unperfored 35mm at reasonable cost, then 9.5 will be available again from Color City, probably also with the process included.
Andrew, by "there", I presume you mean "on the continent" :-) Brussels is not far away from Paris but it is in another country, though :-)

Posted by Luigi Castellitto (Member # 3759) on May 15, 2016, 01:33 PM:

Great, Dom!
I think the price of Color City for 9.5 mm very good, because it also included the development and shipments.
And they also provides the film already cut (8m-9m) for my Ercsam Camex.

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