Re: [APML] USA and Grey films, Kodak's response

[Craig Utter <cmutter@bellatlantic.net>]

Hello Alan:
I've been a professional Photographer for 15 years now and although
I've been using digital the last 5 years I was a heavey film user in the
days before. There was always an unwritten rule to follow, if you were
doing stuff for yourself (testing,fine art,goofing around) you'ld use any
film around,greymarket, outdated, whatever. If you were being payed by
a client for the best quality and accurate color you went out and bought
the freshest stuff you could find. That also meant you would not buy grey
market film for that kind of job.
I've used grey market film and film that I found in the bottom of boxes
that was forgotten for 5 years and gotten good results But I would never
use it for a paid shoot. Now since absolute accuracy in color rendition
is not a prerequisite for astrophotography I doubt if the grey market films
from Adorama would be too bad. I've also been following the "Supra thread"
and bought some " international" ,"grey", and "Royal" Supra for testing.
Once I get some clear weather I'll let you know what I found.

Craig Michael Utter

Alan Voetsch wrote:

Hey all,

Well, he didn't go into much detail, but from his reply I'm led to
believe that:

1. These films are created alike.
2. Some are put into overseas (printed in 4 languages) packaging.
3. Once the overseas film has left here, it is no longer subject to any
of the controls that we take for granted; chilling, not x-rayed, etc...
4. If the grey film has not been shipped overseas, it is as good as the
film packaged in the boxes printed in English.
5. The "International" films are unofficially grey films that the
distributors are saying have never been overseas.
6. I think grey flms are exactly the same as USA film (well, of course
they are) and the odds of them being shipped overseas and then ending
up back on the distributors shelves for us to order is virtually
non-existent.
6. As I ordered film this morning, the guy I talked to basically told
me that's the way things are too.

Now, I know some of you guys work with film, and/or cameras
professionally. Can anyone confirm what I believe, or deny it? Is this
one of those situations that is just never talked about, but covered
up? Somebody has to know something for sure, all I have is heresay.

Anyway, Kodak's response follows

Alan

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