Once there was a big list of which film was made by which base manufacturer.

[srichards]

Ages ago I remember a website or even a google doc that had a gigantic list of all film stocks and their codes and who made them. There's a few which are rebadged something else's and the something else is often cheaper if you can get that. Lomo Lady grey being Ilford is an obvious one.

Does anyone have any idea where this went?

 

[FishyFish]

Do you mean this one Suz?

The Big Film Database for analog photographers - Search by DX number, code or name

 

[srichards]

Do you mean this one Suz?

The Big Film Database for analog photographers - Search by DX number, code or name

Yes. I think that's the one!

 

[ChrisR]

The Wikipedia page on photographic film has a lot of information, but is not always up to date... unless WE update it, I guess! I should add P33... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographic_films

 

[ChrisR]

There was a thread on Mastodon, mid August, about re-branded film stocks and how many of them are more expensive than their base stocks (some are of course rebrands of unavailable films, that's a different thing). A guy called Tony Gale who posts as @coldkennels@mastodon.social gave me permission to show this list on TP:



An interesting list!

 

[auntiemaryscanary]

Thanks @ChrisR . I've not heard of Aviphot before though. The rebrands of Fomapan and Kentmere are more or less what I expected.

 

[Flighter]

Another one for Kodak Aerocolor:

Popho Luminar (or Luminaire, it's Canadian so English and French) 100 = Kodak Aerocolor

Popho say on their website that it’s respooled Kodak Aerocolor IV 2460

 

[The Oldun]

I have just done a whinge on my channel about rebranded film because after buying some Lomo Lady Grey I was informed that it was actually Fomapan 400. I have moved away from Foma films because of suspect quality control, so ending up paying about £3 a roll more for a Foma product that didn't even have DX codes made me quite angry. I shot a roll in my Fuji STX-2 and was pleasantly surprised with the results. The grain wasn't as pronounced as I had experienced with Fomapan 400 so I compared it with some previously shot negatives and concluded that the film is Fomapan 200 (pushed to 400). I still paid more than £3 a roll more than I would have if I had bought it as Fomapan 200. Lomo are so keen to keep the source product a secret that there aren't even edge codes, branding or frame numbers on the negative margins. I buy all my films from film photography specialist retailers and I criticised my retailer in a review for not telling us what we were actually buying (and I am sure they did have that knowledge).