What do the numbers on a sealed Kodak Vericolor film roll mean?
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I found a sealed roll of Kodak Vericolor film and I'm trying to understand the numbers printed on the label, especially the ones on the left side. What do these numbers identify, and what type of film is this?
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6011 is the product number. This designates it as Vericolor Internegative Film, which is also printed out on the label. It was made to be processed by conventional C-41 chemistry. ECN-2 chemistry could also be used to develop it.
36-54 appears to be a batch number. Kodak introduced 6011 in 1978. The expiration date was around 20 months after manufacture, so your roll of 6011 that expired in August 1981 would have been made right around the end of 1979 or the beginning of 1980. That's less than two years after Kodak started making 6011. By the mid-1990s, batch numbers had grown from two two-digit numbers to two four-digit numbers, such as 3361-0122.
Internegative film was used to create negatives from positive color transparencies (either "slides" or larger transparencies) or color prints. It is balanced for 3200K enlarger lamps.
It is very slow. When fresh it would have probably been around ISO 6. Yes, that's ISO 6, not DIN 6. This Flickr thread discusses 6011 and ISO. In 2014 the user tested two rolls. One from 1980 (34 years out of date) tested at ISO 0.75, one from 1994 (20 years out of date) was ISO 1.5. The user did not reveal under what conditions either had been stored for that long.
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The numbers are most likely identifying the film type and its manufacturing batch.
- 6011 is the Kodak product number for Vericolor Internegative Film.
- The other number, such as 36-54, is a batch number used by Kodak to track that specific production run.
This film was not standard consumer print film. Internegative film was used mainly to make a color negative from a color transparency (slide), so prints could be made from slides. It could also be used in other lab or copy applications.
According to the label information mentioned in the community answers, this film was intended for C-41 processing; ECN-2 could also be used.
If the roll has an expiration date around August 1981, it was likely manufactured roughly late 1979 to early 1980. Since it is very old, even if still sealed, image quality may be unpredictable if someone tries to shoot it today.
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