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Wittner Order

26/2/2013

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Just want to say thanks too everyone who has ordered film and processing this month. I'm still a ways off completing the large order from Wittner but your support has helped. We've shifted 20 of the 40 carts from our last order so still a bit to go yet. Please keep purchasing as much process paid film and processing as you can in the meantime. The sooner I raise the cash the better. I really want to get some B&W reversal stock back in the store and I want to start testing some B&W neg. Cheers guys, don't give up, we'll get there! 
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Telecine (better late than never)

19/2/2013

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Well, finally the telecine unit has arrived. Hooray (it's been 4 months)! Now the real work can begin. I've sorted out the computer and the 0-Raid drive array and I'm putting the Blackmagic card through it's paces. I should have the Velocity-HD software ordered by the end of the day and hopefully it'll be compatible with Blackmagic's latest drivers. If not I'll have to retrograde to older drivers (keep your fingers crossed). You may be able to see the massive condenser lens at the top of the picture. I intend to do away with that and instead aim my HD camera right at the film gate with a macro lens fitted. Once it's all working and aligned it'll be transported to the lab for some good honest transfer work. Fingers crossed a reversal 8mm USB HD service will be up and running in March sometime and then other services will follow.
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Important Future Processing Possibilities 

5/2/2013

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As I mentioned in my last post it's a make or break month  here in regards to importing more film stock from Wittner. This negative processing machine is one of the reasons we want to make it work. A very kind chap gave us this processor for free to help us attempt to keep film alive and affordable here in the UK. With a little restoration and conversion (from 35/16mm to 8mm/16mm) we'll be able to start processing B&W neg films and later on in the year colour neg (after I have devised some machinery to remove the remjet backing). Please, please purchase as much 100D/ 50D and processing from us as you can this month. ALL the income will go towards making a larger order from Wittner which will include neg stock for testing (read my last post to get the whole story on the next Wittner order) and will also go towards servicing the processor. We want to get this processor up to scratch, start offering an affordable neg service and basically offer a good selection of Super 8, Double 8 and 16mm neg film stocks as well as reversal. We cannot achieve this if we cannot raise the money for it from our current 100D and 50D reversal order. I'm confidant we can turn the dismal beginnings of 2013 around and I'm doing everything I can to make it happen as quickly as possible so we don't fold on the film front. This will determine the course of small gauge film in the UK. We've done a lot to bring film prices down this past year and the larger companies have had to follow suite. Without my little lab selling film (I'm sorry to say) these bigger UK companies will be left once again to (quite frankly) charge extortionate prices for film which in the long term will kill it off altogether. This little lab is determined to stop this from happening. 
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FEBRUARY at Gauge Film 

1/2/2013

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So it's a pivotal month. I have listed the Super 8 E100D and Wittner Chrome V50D process paid cartridges at the new prices and I pray they sell. If I can shift the 40 carts of colour this month I'll contact Wittner to figure out how we can take full advantage of the maximum carriage weights next month. That is to say on the next order I want to stuff as many carts in the box as the delivery service allows to help bring down the overall price of the carts in my shop. This should knock a few quid of the current prices. I've been getting free postage from Kodak up until now but with Wittner this is not the case and it adds extra cost. Please ride it out this month and try and purchase as many colour carts as you possibly can from me. If I can sell the x20 V50D & x20 E100D carts I have in atm it will go a long way in aiding me to purchase a larger order at Wittner next month. If all goes well I'll be purchasing a variety of new film stocks from them as well which is an exciting notion. 

I've also listed the new Orwo UN 45 for Standard 8 camera users. I have been  so impressed with its reversal qualities I have shot three rolls of the stuff myself and if you're a Standard 8 shooter I fully recommend it! 

All in all this very much feels like the make or break month. This month will determine whether I continue purchasing film to sell. If it doesn't go well don't worry I'll still list my Super 8, Double 8 and 16mm processing and telecine services. However it would be a shame to lose film.       
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