Re: Seattle FilmWorks

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexa Smith writes:

>The main reason we stopped using them though is that if you shoot on their
>film NO OTHER LAB will process it for you even though it is just an E6 run
>as far as I can tell.  I don't know if they are adding something to the
>film so that no one else will touch it or if it's just the fact that it's
>proprietary film but neither our University lab or any of the commercial
>ones in town would touch it.Anyone else have a similar problem?

Here's the skinny as I got it from the rec.photo newsgroups on Usenet.

The film SFW currently supplies is standard C41 process (just like every
other color negative film I know of), BUT, the film canister is labelled
"Process SFW-XL".  Since most reputable labs won't risk ruining your film
by guessing at what this process might be, they will simply pass on it.
(BTW, the old respooled motion picture film was labelled "Process SFW").

According to the word on Usenet, a couple of commercial labs (Dale
comes to mind as being one mentioned) WILL process this film.  But,
since it's nothing special to begin with, why bother, except that it
is very inexpensive.  The bottom line seems to be if you want cheap
film, competitive developing, some extras like photos-on-disk and you
aren't overly concerned with the quality of the results, SFW is for you.

        -Greg W.


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