Fuji "True Definition" film

[pshinkaw]

I just bought a 3-roll box of Fuji "True Definition" color negative film in 35mm/24 exposure. (ISO 400) I have never heard of this film before. Is it a re-named version of an existing film or something new entirely?

Has anyone tried it?

-Paul

 

[Kim Coxon]

There is nothing on any of the Fuji websites. I suspect it is a re boxed version of their normal ISO 400.

Kim

 

[Chaser]

this may not give much info....but it is worth a look.

http://www.fujifilmusa.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/Film35mmPrintTrueDefinition.jsp

http://shutterbug.com/news/021405fujifilm/

 

[bmattock]

Actually, I thought that too - but being the kind of person I am, I called Fuji. Had to go through several layers of customer service and then management, but I finally found a guy who was willing to stick his neck out and definitively state that it is a brand new emulsion, not a relabel of an existing emulsion. So unless he lied to me, it's new.

For what it may be worth - it has been available at the consumer level for awhile here in NC, and I bought some. Didn't like it at all. Grainy, wonky colors. I much prefer Fuji XTRA Superia 400.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[SteveM(PA)]

Actually, I thought that too - but being the kind of person I am, I called Fuji. Had to go through several layers of customer service and then management, but I finally found a guy who was willing to stick his neck out and definitively state that it is a brand new emulsion, not a relabel of an existing emulsion. So unless he lied to me, it's new.

For what it may be worth - it has been available at the consumer level for awhile here in NC, and I bought some. Didn't like it at all. Grainy, wonky colors. I much prefer Fuji XTRA Superia 400.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

"He has a question about WHAT? FILM? I don't know, tell 'im to go to Fandango!"
🙂

 

[pshinkaw]

Thank you all for you feedback. I shall try it and report back in due course.

-Paul

 

[bmattock]

"He has a question about WHAT? FILM? I don't know, tell 'im to go to Fandango!"
🙂

Yeah, I hear ya. It's just one of my bugaboos. I read a question, followed by a rumor, which is then repeated over and over until it is 'fact', which people then repeat back and forth to each other with great seriousness. Not one of them can be bothered to get off their half-moons and pick up a freaking telephone and go right to the source.

So I call. I email. Heck, I even sent an actual letter once, with a stamp and ever thang. And I keep at it until I get an answer or a brush-off that I can't get around.

I used to be surprised at how well that works, but not anymore. Just be polite and persistant, and you can eventually talk to some high muckity-muck of any company. I do it all the time.

That doesn't mean I get a truthful answer, but it has to be better than people just repeating the same old tired rumors back and forth to each other.

Hey, did you hear the news? Rodinal is dead! What will I do??????

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[fgianni]

Actually, I thought that too - but being the kind of person I am,

You mean the kind of person that likes to know things instead of guessing wild?

 

[bmattock]

You mean the kind of person that likes to know things instead of guessing wild?

Sad, isn't it?

 

[fgianni]

Sad, isn't it?

Indeed, where will the world go if people starts to ask questions instead of just believing whatever they are told?

 

[dnk512]

I did try some, too and like Bill said, it was no good! Colors were pale and grain was visible even in 4x6. Several rolls. Perhaps the one hour labs do not know how to handle it, yet.

 

[Kim Coxon]

There is nothing about the film on the UK site. Having searched the US site, it appears to be available in 24exp size only or in ready use cameras. This would tend to indicate it is very much for the consumer market.

Kim

 

[amateriat]

For what it may be worth - it has been available at the consumer level for awhile here in NC, and I bought some. Didn't like it at all. Grainy, wonky colors. I much prefer Fuji XTRA Superia 400.

Sounds like Fuji's equivalent to Kodak's cheap n' nasty MAX 400 (really, is this such a good time to kick a lousy film out into the marketplace?). Agreed on the general niceness of Superia XTRA (which my hazy memory says is the consumer equivalent of Fuji Press 400, which I positively love).


- Barrett