Mitsubishi Film

whitecat said:
Anyone know who used to produce this? Just got some and actually it's pretty good stuff.
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Mitsubishi may have made it themselves - they do make coated plastic films (non-photographic) for other industries. They also had close ties with Konica, which made Sakura color print film for many years (no longer). Some have said that Mitsubishi film resembled Sakura film. Other than that, I do not know.

Mitsubishi seems to have stopped selling their own color film about the time that Konica-Minolta withdrew from the photographic film market, so that lends some credence to the notion that their film was repackaged Sakura, then Konica, then Konica-Minolta.
 
I thought it was an Italian film with a name that ends in 'nia'... In fact, I got a very cheap roll in (of all places) St. Louis MO, to test drive a small Minolta RF camera that I had gotten on eBay by sheer luck.
 
SolaresLarrave said:
I thought it was an Italian film with a name that ends in 'nia'... In fact, I got a very cheap roll in (of all places) St. Louis MO, to test drive a small Minolta RF camera that I had gotten on eBay by sheer luck.
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Should have a statement of origin on the package. If it says Japan...probably didn't come from Ferrania.

I noticed on eBay that someone is selling 2010-dated Mitsubishi rolls of film:

5 x Mitsubishi Super MX 200 Color Film 35mm 135-36 lomo

I presume that means that Mitsubishi is unearthing old rolls of its own stuff from deep freeze, or selling on something made by someone else. Says it was made in Japan. If recent manufacture, then it has to be Fuji. If old manufacture, then...
 
Looks like a currently available product. It may be re-
branded Fuji or ?

"Mitsubishi Imaging (MPM) Inc. announces the introduction of
Mitsubishi MX-II color film ... "

http://www.mitsubishiimaging.com/pmd.aspx?id=pmd00A
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retro said:
Looks like a currently available product. It may be be re-
branded Fuji or ?

"Mitsubishi Imaging (MPM) Inc. announces the introduction of
Mitsubishi MX-II color film ... "

http://www.mitsubishiimaging.com/pmd.aspx?id=pmd00A
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Yeah, I saw their web page five or six years ago. Nothing has changed on it except the copyright date, as I recall. Nothing new here. I did email them about availability, never got a reply. To the best of my knowledge, they no longer make film - if they ever 'made' it in the 'manufacturing' sense.
 
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