Arista Premium film: is this stuff Tri-X?

Agfa made Arista II, so it may be them.

its probably not Tri-X, but ultrafine offers that repackaged. http://www.ultrafineonline.com/ult400bwspva2.html I think??!

it's made in the USA, are there any american manufacturers other than kodak?

At least up 'til fairly recently most generic or house-branded film labeled "Made in the USA" was made by 3M. AFAIK, Kodak does not repackage film, tho' this too may have changed within the past few years.

I did a bit more research to update myself on the current state of film manufacturing.

The Imation division of 3M that used to manufacture photographic film was sold off to Italian company Ferrania. Ferrania is a longtime manufacturer of film that is repackage and rebranded, commonly found in grocery stores, drug stores, etc. Ferrania now has a manufacturing facility in Oklahoma. It's a pretty safe bet that's the source of the Arista film.

Fuji used to manufacture film that was repackaged and rebranded for sales worldwide. They were actually the manufacturer for some of the color negative film once marketed under the Polaroid name. Agfa also made color films sold under other brands.

Again, I might be behind the times, but as far as I know Kodak has never manufactured film for repackaging or rebranding under other brand names.

I've used rebranded Ferrania color film before with decent results. I didn't know that they made any B&W films, though.

They don't seem to have posted any developing information for Arista Premium yet, so there's nothing to compare the numbers with. I have a shopping cart ready to go with Freestyle and I do need to replenish my stock of bulk film. Tempting.

At that price I may just order a roll and find out. I will wait a few days and see if they start to offer other types and sizes. In the fall Ultrafine is going to introduce some new B&W premium films also so I wonder if Kodak did stop their policy of not re branding and decided it is time to sell film.

Thanks for the heads up.

Like Bryan, above, I'm fairly confident that Ferrania only make (made?) color negative films. When I saw the bit about "partnership" with a "major film manufacturer" (note, it's no longer "U.S. film manufacturer" on the product page) I was thinking it might be stuff from one of the plants in China that Kodak is connected with, but "manufactured in the USA" would seem to suggest otherwise. (Then again, if the base is made in the U.S, but it's coated in China, does that still qualify as "manufactured" here?)

I wonder if it's leftover stock of the "old" TMY, rather than Tri-X?

Actually I was just looking at the Porter's catalog today, and they have a "Porter's ISO 400 B&W" film which says "Develop like Tri-X". However it is the same price as Kodak bulk roll of Tri-X. If this stuff from Freestyle really is Tri-X at $30 a roll then put me down for two! In fact it will be huge for our community college students to finally get a quality ISO 400 bulk film at these prices. Let's wait and see.....

I was not aware that Kodak was coating emulsion in China. Let's hope that someone in Rochester is still coating emulsions....

AFAIK, Kodak severed its relationship with Lucky a year or so ago. Ferrania's website shows only color films being manufactured, no mention of b&w. Offhand I can't think of another U.S.-based manufacturer of film. Puzzling.