Mogzy wrote:Of course I address this to anyone who lives in a country where you're not going to get arrested for trading with North Korea (i.e. If you live in the USA better not try it.
I know this sounds unlikely, but someone recently told me that the US Post Office must deliver any flat letter submitted to it, regardless of destination location. This guy has been mailing letters (parcels are a different story) to various countries on the US watch list for years.
In the case of North Korea, it may be a situation of the article being delivered to some secondary service (probably in S. Korea) who would then deliver the item to what they call the "frontier." From there, who knows, maybe they just dump the mail sacks on the edge of the DMZ.
Regardless, I'm tempted to try it just to see what will happen. I'd love to watch the insane political theater go down as I'm arrested for sending a letter to North Korea inquiring about...Super 8 film.
Tim
The U.S. dropped the trade embargo with North Korea in 2000. I'm aware of at least one company actively importing pottery.
Letters have never been restricted as far as I know.
Just found out on Thursday that a student worker we have is from S. Korea and reads and writes Korean...as soon as I get back from my vacation (assuming the info hasn't been uncovered) I'll ask her to help out with this project....
In the UK retrophotographic are possibly the company to talk too. They sell the FOMA cine film. I have tried some LUCKY 35mm negative film. It has a very clear base which makes it good for scanning. I tried their web site but on the English side there was only still and commercial cine film. I looked at the Chinese side and could not make anything out.
I suspect China might have bypassed the home cine market and gone straight to video. In the days when super-8 was popular China was still poor so only the elite would have access, and no doubt used imported Kodachrome, or at worst the Russian stuff.
North Korea is a different ball game though.
At 16asa it might even be a copy of Dufaycolour :!:
New web site and this is cine page http://www.picsntech.co.uk/cine.html
Till 1975 ORWO used to produce the film (2 x 8 mm & DS8) named ORWOCOLOR UT 13 (Daylight, ISO 16/13). My father accidentally used it - good colours (today too), no grain, but absolutely unsharp. It could be the same process.
well, that is interesting. kahlfilm.de sells a film also designated UT (Umkehr / Tageslicht) - Reversal Daylight.
#1: Orwofilm?
#2: Kai Check = Orwo or on license or re-badged?
could fit nicely.
wild guess...
can you trace Orwo Jürgen?
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