Anyone tried Lucky film

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I was just checking out J & C photo. HAs anyone tried Lucky film 400 speed?
$1.99 per roll. Is it a, you get what you pay for situation or worth giving it a try?
 
US big chain 99 Cent store sells Lucky for 99 cents, Chinese films, awful color, but, if you like Walgreens Studio 35, shooting w 35mm Holga, it's a perfect match.

Or, maybe, today's Lucky400 is a rebranded Kodak Max..., you know kodak print films are mostly made in China now, maybe they bought all Lucky factories.
 
Lucky 400 is (based upon) the old Tri-x. Very good film for it's price, not always consistent though, well out of ten rolls I bought and used, 1 screwed up, but this was ages ago, apparantly they have improved their QA/QC program
 
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You should look at the post I did under the Walgreens film thread. It compares Studio 35 all Walgreens shot in a Canonet vs. Kodak in a Leica Mini. This is real world test to show what it really does. I will try Lucky film just to see what there is to see.
 
paulfitz said:
Taipei-Metro

You should look at the post I did under the Walgreens film thread. It compares Studio 35 all Walgreens shot in a Canonet vs. Kodak in a Leica Mini. This is real world test to show what it really does. I will try Lucky film just to see what there is to see.

thank you Paul.
In last 5 years I've probably shot 50 rolls of Agfa 200 or 400, even had my brother brought back Agfa films from Germany.
Either the films' no good or the machines in Taipei, US are not ' in correct channel' w Agfa negs, I don't do c-41 myself (do you?). Here, Konica, Fuji print shops are like McDonalds, everywhere! I don't think I want K, F, people to develope German Agfa.
I also tried Mitsubishi print films, awful.
Chinese Lucky, one roll several years ago, scare the heck out of me!
Thanks, you did a great job.
 
My samples were process in a Fuji Frontier mini-lab by Walgreens. They are scans of the actual negatives. I don't get prints. I also wanted to try out the other problems people have with Walgreens on process only. They didn't give me any trougble to "process only" but they did not sleeve them and there are nasty thumbprints. So this is potential another deal-breaker for them.
 
I hear from Al K. that the Lucky film cartridges can be reloaded. 🙂
 
Frank Granovski said:
I hear from Al K. that the Lucky film cartridges can be reloaded. 🙂

AW c'mon Frank. The stuff only costs a shade under $2 USD to begin with - you really gonna reload these babies? 😀

What is that tugging I'm feeling on my leg right now?
 
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