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Late last year (October or thereabouts), I saw my usual lab selling Fuji 400 for THB420 (about USD11), so not having shot Fuji in a while, I grabbed a box... Turns out that Fuji has been outsourcing its film to the states, likely to Kodak, their long-time rivals in the film scene (! Also, check out this Reddit comment suggesting only subtle differences from Kodak's own Ultramax) On top of that, while I was shooting the US Fuji came bad news regarding Japanese-made Fuji: Superia X-Tra 400 being discontinued, effective immediately :-\ (and even when it was available, it was going for THB550 [USD 15!])
Also, although I shot this roll half-frame with my Kodak H35, when I got this roll processed, it ended up getting scanned as full-frame diptychs instead of half-frames: I was buying a couple more rolls at the same time and the total price was getting pretty expensive as it was, so I didn't notice that they hadn't included the half-frame split surcharge; that said, I did write on the processing envelope that it was half-frames, so I would have expected them to recognize that I wanted them split, especially since they didn't ask like the previous times I'd sent in such rolls :-\ Similar to the ones developed at the ECN2 lab, it results in some of the frames looking overexposed or underexposed when the other half of the frame was shot in different conditions :-\ Anyways, let's check out the pictures...
( The case of the American Fuji )
Also, although I shot this roll half-frame with my Kodak H35, when I got this roll processed, it ended up getting scanned as full-frame diptychs instead of half-frames: I was buying a couple more rolls at the same time and the total price was getting pretty expensive as it was, so I didn't notice that they hadn't included the half-frame split surcharge; that said, I did write on the processing envelope that it was half-frames, so I would have expected them to recognize that I wanted them split, especially since they didn't ask like the previous times I'd sent in such rolls :-\ Similar to the ones developed at the ECN2 lab, it results in some of the frames looking overexposed or underexposed when the other half of the frame was shot in different conditions :-\ Anyways, let's check out the pictures...
( The case of the American Fuji )
