Is anyone familiar with this emulsion?

I was the recipient of three rolls of bulk mystery film recently. The rolls were in plain black bags with no external markings. It is obviously a color negative emulsion from Kodak, but I don't know anything else about it. These are from the first roll I tried, shot at iso 100 in Smena 8M and home processed in Arista C-41.

Photographer:
troch
Uploaded:
2018-05-20
Tags:
35mm c-41 canada color diy expired film home developed mystery film spring
Camera:
Lomo Smena 8M (available in our shop)
Film:
Kodak S0147?
City:
Earl's Cove, BC
Country/region:
Canada
Albums:
It's a Mystery

3 Comments

  1. schwarzesauge
    schwarzesauge ·

    I guess it is a special order, because of the so-marks.
    Kodak made a lot of special orders for companies, who wanted something special.
    the most famous one is the SO-553- because the studio it was produced for, didn't want it, and so you can still get it second hand.
    here is a report:
    www.lomography.com/magazine/239132-kodak-so-553-the-special…
    the K'odak is indeed surprising....

  2. schwarzesauge
    schwarzesauge ·

    I was curious and found this discussion
    www.photrio.com/forum/threads/kodak.7448/
    and i looked up my so-553.
    it simply says: KODAK SO-553

  3. troch
    troch ·

    Thanks @klawe and @schwarzesauge. As far as I know, the K'ODAK refers to having been made at the Rochester, NY plant. When Kodak had a number of plants worldwide, they used the spacing to indicate which plant. (Canada was KO'DAK). The special order makes sense.

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