Mapping supermarket/drugstore color films

[batterytypehah!]

I really like the Freestyle films sticky (http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80192) but it's all B&W. Can we do the same for color?

Consensus seems to be that Walgreen's brand, both 200 and 400, is made by Fuji.

I've seen speculation that CVS 200 is Superia.

ShurFine grocery stores (aka Western Family elsewhere in the US) used to carry Ferrania. Store brand packaging, but identified as Ferrania in the pre-exposed code -- of course, the Made in Italy imprint on the box was also a giveaway. I loved that stuff but it seems to have disappeared.

Contributions from outside the US encouraged. For example, what's being sold under the Agfa name in Europe now?

 

[dmr]

Consensus seems to be that Walgreen's brand, both 200 and 400, is made by Fuji.

The recent Walgreens 800 is most definitely Fuji too.

ShurFine grocery stores (aka Western Family elsewhere in the US) used to carry Ferrania. ...

The Kroger house brand film used to be Ferrania, but they phased it out, at least around here. I picked up a whole bunch of it on close-out. Shot it long ago.

 

[Trius]

PhotoLab is Fuji, carried by the Loblaws/Zehrs/SuperStore etc. in Canada. Processing is included, though there may be packaging for no processing as well.

The nice thing is that there is an ISO 100 emulsion.

Blacks used to be Fuji, but I don't know if that's still the case.

 

[batterytypehah!]

Agfa Vista 200 is Ferrania 200. Being sold dirt cheap in German drugstores and about to be reintroduced in the U.S.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83737

Who has used Vista in other speeds recently?

 

[bmattock]

If it says 'Made in Japan', it's Fuji. If it says 'Made in China' or 'Made in USA', it's Kodak. If it says 'Made in Italy' (or apparently 'Made in EU, according to your statement), it's Ferrania.

That's all there is. Not really too hard.

 

[batterytypehah!]

That's all very nice if I have the box in front of me. Maybe with your super vision you can see all the way from Detroit into all the supermarkets and drugstores in New England. I lack such powers and am therefore soliciting information from other members.

 

[bmattock]

That's all very nice if I have the box in front of me. Maybe with your super vision you can see all the way from Detroit into all the supermarkets and drugstores in New England. I lack such powers and am therefore soliciting information from other members.

If you don't have the box in front of you, you're not buying it. If you do, you can look at it yourself. This is not rocket science.

 

[David Graves]

But one might be soliciting information before leaving home on a buying trip to a store one does not normally frequent. batterytypehah! never made claims about rocket science being involved, or quantum mechanics for that matter.

 

[back alley]

BIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLL


it's christmas for c's sake, take a pill man.

 

[climbing_vine]

I'm sort of with Bill here... I mean, if you don't have the box in front of you, you can still find that piece of info online. Batterytype's reply was a hell of a lot less christmasy than Bill's useful cliff's notes.

 

[bmattock]

BIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLL


it's christmas for c's sake, take a pill man.

Where my ho's at?

 

[back alley]

Where my ho's at?

wherever you left her?

 

[bmattock]

wherever you left her?

And you tell me to be nice! 😛

 

[kshapero]

Back to reality: Would it be safe to say that Walgreen's color 400 is EXACTLY the same as Fuji Superia 400?

 

[bmattock]

Back to reality: Would it be safe to say that Walgreen's color 400 is EXACTLY the same as Fuji Superia 400?

All that Fuji makes in 35mm for ISO 400 is Superia and Pro 400H, right? So it seems that those would be the choices. I have difficulty imagining them making a separate 'not as good' film specifically to sell under another label. I suppose it is possible, but I doubt we can get Fuji to confirm or deny that.

 

[dmr]

Back to reality: Would it be safe to say that Walgreen's color 400 is EXACTLY the same as Fuji Superia 400?

When Walgreens changed from Agfa to Fuji, I inspected the bar codes on the negatives and they were very similar. The performance is such that I can't tell any difference.

And, when the "new" Agfa films start appearing {holding breath}, I sure hope they are more like the old Agfa and not like the Ferrania.

 

[batterytypehah!]

if you don't have the box in front of you, you can still find that piece of info online.

Which is exactly what I am trying to do here. If you have a better source of information, why don't you share it?

 

[Fujitsu]

If you don't have the box in front of you, you're not buying it. If you do, you can look at it yourself. This is not rocket science.

What a nice person. Never missing a chance to piss someone off.

 

[Fujitsu]

And, when the "new" Agfa films start appearing {holding breath}, I sure hope they are more like the old Agfa and not like the Ferrania.

Depends. Vista sucks and is definitely not "old Agfa". Unfortunately.

 

[climbing_vine]

Which is exactly what I am trying to do here. If you have a better source of information, why don't you share it?

What I'm saying is, for any given film you can easily find where it's made, and then you know which manufacturer it came from.

So I guess what you're really looking for is a list of non-Kodak/Fuji color negative film brandings... since it's been shared that the "who makes it" part is simple but you don't like that answer.