Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Seattle Film Works
From: "Joseph Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:58:00 -0800

Bill,

In the past Seattle Film Works marketed  repackaged ends of 35mm motion
picture film. I believe they use the same stock to this day. The film is
balanced for tungsten and compensation for exposure without the appropriate
filtration is made by SFW chemically during  processing at their lab .

SFW provides a set of prints and slides as well as a new roll of film for
the price of developing the previous roll. Unfortunately, the slides are
made by "optical contact printing" (whatever that means) which results in a
reversed image (in respect to the emulsion).
To compensate for this, the slides are inserted in the projector backwards.
the result is a slide whose film has a curvature opposite that of the
projector's optics thus making the image impossible to focus across the
entire slide.

However, you don't have to toss the film you received. Use it to practice
loading  M cameras in the dark.
Joseph Codispoti

From: Bill Grimwood <bgrim@garply.com>

To: <Leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 11:54 AM
Subject: [Leica] Seattle Film Works


>Today I received two rolls of free? film from Seattle film works.  Has
>anyone had any experience with them?  My first inclination is to just throw
>the film in the garbage can and forget about it.  Or is this some good
>stuff that these people do a good job with?
>
>
>Bill Grimwood
>