ACN process?

[colrehogan]

A friend of mine was given some old cameras for Christmas by his uncle. He called me and we talked for a while. One was a Kodak Instamatic X45 and the other was a Brownie Target Six-20. I believe that the film was in the Instamatic. He said that the film cartridge said ACN process. Has anyone ever heard of this process or if there is anyone around who can do it?

Sorry, I didn't think to ask whether it was b/w or color.

[David A. Goldfarb]

Maybe Agfa or Ansco Color Negative?

[photomc]

Hey Diane, Happy Holidays...IIRC ACN is the C-22 process motion picture film that you see in many of the photo rags (or at least back when I used to read any ).

[colrehogan]

Thanks!

[srs5694]

Hey Diane, Happy Holidays...IIRC ACN is the C-22 process motion picture film that you see in many of the photo rags (or at least back when I used to read any ).

No, you're confusing two things, neither of which (AFAIK) goes by the acronym "ACN." C-22 was the Kodak consumer film process that predated the current C-41. I don't know if C-22 was ever used for motion picture film, but if it was, it was in the 1970s or earlier.

The motion picture film process is ECN-II. Outfits like Dale Laboratories and Seattle FilmWorks used to repackage this for consumers, but they started to shift to conventional C-41 film in the early 1990s. AFAIK, no outfits still market such films to average consumers any more, although you can still buy bulk rolls of it from the Film Emporium or probably other places.

As to "ACN," I'm not sure. David's guess sounds plausible. Current Agfa color film is AP70, which is just Agfa's name for their C41-compatible process. In any event, colrehogan, you might want to contact Rocky Mountain Film Lab. They can process just about anything, or so they claim. (I've never used them.) I didn't see "ACN" specifically mentioned on their site, but they might be able to tell you what it is if you e-mail them. You could also just try running it through a conventional B&W developer. Chances are you'd get something, although it wouldn't be color. You'd have to guess at the development time. You could do just a bit of the roll as a test and then adjust the time for the rest of the roll.

[Neal]

I think ACN is the movie film version of Kodachrome.

Neal Wydra

[photomc]

srs5694, you are probably correct, but the reason to suspect this is the film mentioned is old Instamatic cartridge, which actually would mean it could be from 60's or 70's - agree that Rocky Mountain Film Lab is probably the best bet for processing

[Helen B]

Another vote for Agfa Colour Negative - there was a time when almost all colour neg film used either the Agfa or one of the Kodak processes - ie there were two 'standard' processes (or three, when C-22 and C-41 overlapped in the late seventies). The Agfa process was used for other brands of film, like Forte, Berkey, Hanimex, Orwo, Perutz, Directacolor, Famous Brand, Technicolor, Svema and Sears. As far as I know, Svema continued to make Agfa-process film long after Agfa had changed to a C-41 type process. They also hung on to an Orwo process for some colour neg films after the rest of the world had standardised on Agfa or Kodak.

Best,
Helen