Topic: Determining Film type by markings on negatives

[mcduff]

Greetings
Some scanning software (eg Silverfast) lets you dial in a profile for different film negatives, and I generally find it pretty helpful, assuming I know what the film is! I have trudged through a few thousand* of my old negatives and quite a few types of film do not clearly state the film type on the negs. There are some sites that have this info, however

These pages are good for kodak, fuji, and miscellaneous, respectively:
http://www.taphilo.com/Photo/kodakfilmnumxref.shtml
http://www.taphilo.com/photo/fujifilmxref.shtml
http://www.taphilo.com/photo/miscfilmxref.shtml

Fuji has this PDF and part way through (section 1-3) lists the markings
https://www.fujifilmusa.com/shared/bin/ProfessionalFilmDataGuide.pdf

If anyone else is also OCD about this stuff, feel free to add to it!

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*good news is I am basically done all the old images I need to scan and now have no excuse to shoot new stuff! 

[Francois]

If you want, I can look through some really old books I have. There's bound to be some information for old companies like GAF.

[Bryan]

These Kodak date codes can come in handy.  I use them to estimate the date of old Kodachrome home movies.

http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t011524.html

[mcduff]

Thanks Francois, tho it is mainly the Kodak and Fuji stuff from the 80s to present that I think I need, and even then, if it is too old or too weird Silverscan does not have a colour profile for it! I was really happy when I found out that a certain neg was Kodacolor II, to only find out that my copy of silverscan does not have a profile for it!

Francois, as a fellow Canuck you will remember the Black's Photography stores. If memory serves they started in Montréal. I was cheap and used a lot of their film in the day. Do you remember what film that was?

Bryan, thanks for the additional page as I will add it to my list of reference links!

[Francois]

We didn't have Black's in Montreal. Or at least not that I remember (maybe one store in the business district). But I do have a few rolls of it that I found that expired in 2008 and they are Fuji Superia 200.

One thing we did have a lot of were Direct Film stores... I still have some stuff with their logo in the lab

I also have somewhere in the house a double pack or Perutz film from Germany...

I also have a bunch of rolls of Likon film from China. They were actually rebadged Lucky film which I surprisingly liked a lot. Their AH layers was so weak that you'd sometimes get blooming highlights.