Kodak has now discontinued 7302 acetate bw print stock at this point, which is unfortunate primarily because we (and probably lots of other people) used it for lightstruck leader too.
Mark Toscano On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > So if polyester stocks are stronger, why do Kodak and ORWO make print > > stocks with acetate base? > > 1. It's cheaper. > > 2. You can cement splice it, so it can be used to make intermediates. > > 3. It's not as strong. The polyester stock is so strong that if you were > to run it in a Mitchell and it jammed, the camera movement would fail > before the film did. This is a problem for optical printing. > > 4. The print looks different. There is some light piping through the base > of the polyester print which makes for a slightly different look on > screen. > If anything, the polyester looks more like a nitrate print than an > acetate > print does. It's a very small difference, but it's something you can > notice > on a really good print on a big screen. > --scott > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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