Paul Bartok Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Hi guys a heads up for folks in Australia, I spoke with Kodak the other week, the National manager said that Village roadshow will be closing there lab in 6 months so that means the only other one will be Deluxe (that I know of) and today I was notified that Kodak is deleting there ECN-2 Chemicals Line as Deluxe makes there own chems. Just thought I'd let people know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Compton Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Contact Dominic Case. He is a member of this forum and he can help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Dom Jaeger Posted September 13, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2012 Hi guys a heads up for folks in Australia, I spoke with Kodak the other week, the National manager said that Village roadshow will be closing there lab in 6 months so that means the only other one will be Deluxe (that I know of).. Paul, Village has already closed. According to my sources the final straw was a large feature planned for 35mm that switched to digital at the last moment. It's an all too familiar story, everyone but the bean-counters wanted to shoot on film, the bean-counters won. So Deluxe in Sydney (with Digital Pictures as the post house) is the only local option left. Complete Post have apparently set up a processing deal with Park Road in NZ, otherwise Thailand have very good processing facilities. But basically shooting on film in Australia is a fast dwindling option. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Sean Morris Posted September 13, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2012 Hi Paul, apart from labs in Australia, I've found Shaw Bros and Mandarin Film Labs in HK pretty good, PM me if you want contact emails, and with the exchange rate it works out pretty cheap, I know the tk rate at Shaw was pretty good. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bartok Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 Interesting stuff, yes indeed it looks like shooting 35mm film in Australia is very hard now todo say compared to in the States. Thanks everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Riley Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Hi there. We have been looking into the possibility of cheaper flights or even subsidies for shipping film to us here in Wellington to process for the Australian market. We plan on being around for a while yet! Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk DeJonghe Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 We have done processing for feature films that were shot on the other side of the globe (12 hours time difference exactly). Quicktimes can be uploaded via ftp or other electronic means. Never had an issue with shipping by DHL, Fedex with regard to X-rays. Distance to the lab is no longer an issue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Sean Morris Posted September 14, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted September 14, 2012 Sending some 35mm film to HK (Shaw Bros) in the next two weeks, very cheap price and good email response time, will let you all know how it all goes in the end. Cheers Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bartok Posted September 14, 2012 Author Share Posted September 14, 2012 Hi Chris, whats your company called do you guys have a website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Riley Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Hi Chris, whats your company called do you guys have a website? Hi Paul, Sorry for the slow reply, I don't check here very often. I'm from Park Road Post Productions. head to http://www.parkroadpost.co.nz/ for any info you may need. Cheers, Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Sean Morris Posted October 19, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted October 19, 2012 Sent a test roll of expired Fuji to Shaw Bros for processing and telecine, at a " very unbeatable price " :) .. below some screen grabs from the 10bit QT Uncompressed. Service was great no issues..sent over a small portable firewire 800 drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic Case Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Contact Dominic Case. He is a member of this forum and he can help you. Sorry - haven't looked at this forum for a while. Deluxe Sydney is assuring people that they will be offering 35mm neg processing for a while yet, but they are indeed the only option left. Village in Queensland had been borderline for a long time, and Deluxe Melbourne (previously Cinevex) closed at the beginning of this year I believe. Shipping costs, risk of X-ray, and distance away if anything does go wrong would be the main things to take into account when considering processing in NZ, HK or Belgium (or anywhere else for that matter), but unless you are in Sydney itself and not expecting overnight turnaround, none of those are going to make a big difference wherever you choose. That said, Village opened up the QUeensland lab on the site that Deluxe had previously vacated, because Queensland DoPs and producers weren't prepared to ship negative to Sydney. Still that was a few years ago. Perhaps shipping is less of a hassle now?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andries Molenaar Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=58093 Seems another option exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bartok Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 haha thats my ECN lab, but we only use it to develop Kodak Vision 3 from 35mm or 65mm Stills cameras or our modified lomokino (24fps). Nothing like 100ft loads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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