I recently bought some re-spooled Kodak movie film, that had already had the remjet removed, quite excited as I thought it would be an easy way to get good colour film cheap.
So far it isn't really, even accepting the "its experimental film" caveat I am unimpressed
Roll 1 (250 daylight, shot at 320) was rolled into a 24 exp can, the DX code wasn't covered but the "24" was so I didn't know, loaded into my EOS 3 for accurate metering it rewound at 24, then came out very purple and thin. I put the first down to an oversight and the second down to me, but now I'm not so sure
Roll 2 (500 tungsten, shot at 640) was shot in a non DX camera and I did get 36 shots, however regardless of the lighting the colours were just flat, I can buy Poundland film if I want to tweak every shot in Lightroom
Roll 3 (250 daylight, shot at 320) again shot in a non DX camera, did feel a bit tight on the advance but nothing scary, got to shot 32 however and it went very tight, so I left it, when I tried to rewind however it snapped, I've shot many rolls with this camera and never had this before. I unloaded in a darkbag, there was only a stub of film left so wasnt even 36 exposures
When developing it came out very purple and thin (like roll 1) however i also developed a roll of Fuji Superia at the same time (in the same tank, so exact same chemicals and agitation) and that is spot on
I'm not claiming to be a C41 veteran but I have around 100 films I have developed myself so I'm not a beginner either, I'm guessing the daylight stuff doesn't like my chems.
I don't think i will be buying any more, as 2 out of 3 rolls have had problems caused by the loading into old cans and the one that worked was underwhelming to say the least
I'm going to try the Kodak Vision in my freezer and remove the remjet after shooting, at the minute tho I'm in no rush
For now I will stick to commercial film, or roll my own in proper reusable cans, as I don't get any of the snagging or DX problems listed above