>>4133144>Wondering what the timeframe was for the collapse considering SvemaIt isn't 100% clear, but here's what I know. The regular consumer color films (like DS-4 and CO-50) were coated until early 1993 tops, based on dates on the latest boxes I could find. In 1993 Svema coats first batch of it's first and only C41 film, DS100 (the earliest expiry date I could find is 08.94, so probably coated 08.93 or 12.93 based on shelf life of color film from here
http://istoriya-foto.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000000/st010.shtml ). It's a good film, honestly, but the first batch probably didn't doo to well, labs probably refused to develop it in C41, because it's Svema, so the next batch used a completely different box design, very modern at the time.
The second batch, which is the latest known DS100, expired 06.95. Somewhere around that time CNL-100 film was also introduced, but it's even more rare than DS-100, I can't get a single roll to this day. Idk what Svema after that DS-100 coat, maybe ADOX Color Mission and Implosion,kek, but then 100% was a coating of cine film in summer 1995. At the same time, in '95, a new 'CEO' was assigned to Svema and the first thing he did was cutting all industrial scale coaters and selling the archives for paper. I find this incredibly suspicious, because the main Svema's competitor, Tasma, was doing waay worse than Svema at the time, and was saved by a massive order of aerial recon film from russian defense department because of Chechen war. That order was, you guessed it, in autumn of 1995
After that Svema was basically done. They lived off technical and medical films mostly, until ~2010. All remaining film coaters were sold for scrap after that. The last run of magnetic tape was in 2014, then 6 years of downtime, then the magnetic tape coating facility was bought by Astrum. Tasma lives off russian DOD orders to this day
>What did you use for first developerRegular CO developer, but with BTA
