2020-01-28, 01:50 PM
I don't have all that much experience, so here's just some random thoughts that may or may not be useful:
One thing to consider is that Russian prints tend to be printed on Orwo material which means the colors may be somewhat different compared to normal European/Theatrical releases, however I'm not an expert and it may vary depending on time of release etc. Specifically, Orwo tends to be more green-ish is what I understand.
One of these images you posted says "CBEMA" on it, which seems to indicate a company from Russia called Svema which produced film stocks, so not actually Orwo it seems. I don't know anything about them, I just googled it, so I can't say anything about whether that's good or bad. Some of the images look a bit low contrast (not very opaque blacks) however that could just be the way the photo was taken/processed.
The price seems fair however shipping from Russia, at least on the eBay prints I saw, tends to be exorbitant, so calculate another 150-200 at least for the shipping to Europe, more to the US I think. If you go for this one, I'd suggest having it scanned in Europe, there are some talented and affordable people here who could help out.
I also ignorantly wonder whether Russia may have different cuts than Europe? I don't think they technically count as Europe, but I'm not sure how that was handled in terms of movies.
One thing to consider is that Russian prints tend to be printed on Orwo material which means the colors may be somewhat different compared to normal European/Theatrical releases, however I'm not an expert and it may vary depending on time of release etc. Specifically, Orwo tends to be more green-ish is what I understand.
One of these images you posted says "CBEMA" on it, which seems to indicate a company from Russia called Svema which produced film stocks, so not actually Orwo it seems. I don't know anything about them, I just googled it, so I can't say anything about whether that's good or bad. Some of the images look a bit low contrast (not very opaque blacks) however that could just be the way the photo was taken/processed.
The price seems fair however shipping from Russia, at least on the eBay prints I saw, tends to be exorbitant, so calculate another 150-200 at least for the shipping to Europe, more to the US I think. If you go for this one, I'd suggest having it scanned in Europe, there are some talented and affordable people here who could help out.
I also ignorantly wonder whether Russia may have different cuts than Europe? I don't think they technically count as Europe, but I'm not sure how that was handled in terms of movies.
