Did Ilford Photo (UK) ever make super 8 film?

[Phillip Rhodes]

As the Subject Header mentions, did Ilford Photo (UK) ever make super 8 film? I do have a Practical Photographer from September 1965, but doesn't Ilford - perhaps considering the format was only introduced early in the year...

[S8 Booster]

do not know about film but they were heavily marketing Ilford/Elmo film gear..
http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Elmo.html

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[S8 Booster]

board member Angus of UK may know but here is at least a R8 version:



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[S8 Booster]

check this out too: http://processc22.webs.com/Otherfilm.html

some googlifying answers your question:

8mmforum.film-tech.com

Kevin Faulkner ex-Ilford guy:

John, They had the colour couplers incorporated into the emulsion layers just like Ektachrome, Ansachrome, Agfachrome and a number of others.
The Differance with Ilford aand Agfa comparred to Kodak was that the couplers were water soluble in their makeup. The Kodak couplers were solvent based in their makeup which is why I think that the Ilford and Agfa didnt fade in the same way as the Kodak films. Obviously Kodachrome was a different product entirely and we all know that doesnt fade.

I actually have some Ilford Super 8 films here at home and they look superb. It's unfortunate that the Ilford Super 8 didnt make it into production as this was about the time that cine sale started to decline and the cost of tooling up for the cartridges was very high. I think that also for every roll sold in the Kodak type cartridge a royalty had to be paid to Kodak which is one thing that Ilford hated doing where Kodak were concerned. The experimental batches that were produced were spooled for us by Agfa in Dusseldorf. You wouldn't believe how close Agfa and Ilford worked. In fact its little known that some of the Ilford Coating machines were actually designed and made by Agfa.

I started work for Ilford in 1970 and worked in the colour research laboratories in the Emulsion labs where we made up experimental batches of emulsion for small scale test coatings. I eventually moved over and took charge of the department which test exposed these experimental films and printed them using automated (Gretag) colour printers.
When Ilford shut all its Essex based factories and moved to Cheshire I moved to the London offices and was one of the technical support team for colour products. Ilford slowly moved into the digital era and I moved with it which is how I became involved in the IT side of the photo industry.
I left in 1994 and moved into IT full time and have been doing that ever since.

I bet not many people know that during the 70/80's, the colour film sold by the UK chemist chain was Ilford's both Neg and Pos films.
Also who remembers the Tripple Prints of TRIFCA (Film Corp of America) this was again Ilford film and went on for many years.

During the late 70's early 80's Ilford sold technology to Sakura (Later to become Konica) and eventualy during the late 80's / early 90's Ilford sold these products once again as Ilfocolour and Ilfochrome. These of course were now the common C41 and E6 processes which were and still are the norm.

Ah those were the days How I so miss them

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[jpolzfuss]

Hi,

AFAIK Ilford made Double8-, 9.5mm- and 16mm-films, but no Super8-films. That's probably because the production of the Double8-"Colorcine" got stopped in 1968 (see http://www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de/filead ... ern_17.pdf ). So it looks like they've simply axed their cine-films instead of (also) supporting the new formats Super8/Single8/DS8.

Jörg

[Phillip Rhodes]

Many thanks for the information posted above - very much appreciated...

Pity you can't get some of their current black and white stock in either Super 8 or 16mm. XP2 is an incredible film stock.

[S8 Booster]

Pity you can't get some of their current black and white stock in either Super 8 or 16mm. XP2 is an incredible film stock.

technically you could or can still - you have to contact them - let PRO8MM split and perf 35mm Ilford XP2 into about Kodak S8 Carts. I sent something like 400´ of Fuji F500T to them and got about 25 S8 carts back. if they still do this service you can get the XP2 in S8 carts.

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[Phillip Rhodes]

Technically you could or can still - you have to contact them - let PRO8MM split and perf 35mm Ilford XP2 into about Kodak S8 Carts. I sent something like 400´ of Fuji F500T to them and got about 25 S8 carts back. if they still do this service you can get the XP2 in S8 carts.

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Now that's interesting, though processing C41 might prove problematic. What is really interesting is that http://www.filmstockclearance.com/ are selling 35mm stock at discounted prices, like ETERNA 250T 8553 and ETERNA 500T 8573 for £120 plus VAT for 1000ft, which works out at £2 for 50ft plus cost of repackaging!

[Phillip Rhodes]

With regards repackaging 35mm film into Super 8 cartridges, Pro8mm are "at this time, are not offering this service."

Just an idea!!!

[Aaron_M]

... but you could put 100' of Ilford Pan F into your Eyemo or Devry, correct?

Aaron

[S8 Booster]

You may try Wittner but they use unperfed 16mm as "raw"" material. You may ask them to see if there is a posdibility.

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[jpolzfuss]

Or try Filmotec ( http://www.filmotec.de/?page_id=200&lang=en ).
And GK-Film (alias Cinevia) is also having its own "turn 35mm into Super8"-splitter/-perforator (s. http://www.gkfilm.de/de/8_berichte/Cine ... K-Film.pdf ).