srjarratt
Defective GP3 100
In September 2023 I purchased two 25 sheet boxes of 8x10 Shanghai GP3 100 from SHJC [Shanghai Jiancheng Technology Pty Ltd., the Official GP3 Store] that was delivered on October 2nd.
Their refund policy includes
1 A product is considered faulty if it does not work when first taken from its packaging or if it shows signs of failure within 14 days of delivery.
Well, my 8x10 shooting tempo is slow, and I didn't shoot any until well outside their 14 day window. Thankfully it wasn't a great photo that I found the emulsion is plagued with striations as seen again here in this sky and shown with greater contrast in the inset scan from another negative. Areas of the scene that have lots of texture masks the striations, so there might still be some limited utility for the remaining sheets. But for the most part, this $116 box of film is trash.
I've yet to shoot from the second box. But there is a good chance they made a run of bad film and the next box are the 25 sheets cut before or after the trash box.
This scene was selected for testing and training. I wasn't trying to be artistic at all.
Defective GP3 100
In September 2023 I purchased two 25 sheet boxes of 8x10 Shanghai GP3 100 from SHJC [Shanghai Jiancheng Technology Pty Ltd., the Official GP3 Store] that was delivered on October 2nd.
Their refund policy includes
1 A product is considered faulty if it does not work when first taken from its packaging or if it shows signs of failure within 14 days of delivery.
Well, my 8x10 shooting tempo is slow, and I didn't shoot any until well outside their 14 day window. Thankfully it wasn't a great photo that I found the emulsion is plagued with striations as seen again here in this sky and shown with greater contrast in the inset scan from another negative. Areas of the scene that have lots of texture masks the striations, so there might still be some limited utility for the remaining sheets. But for the most part, this $116 box of film is trash.
I've yet to shoot from the second box. But there is a good chance they made a run of bad film and the next box are the 25 sheets cut before or after the trash box.
This scene was selected for testing and training. I wasn't trying to be artistic at all.