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Ferrania Italy Kickstarter campaign

It didn't really resemble anything else. In fact, it would have been classified as a rather lousy film for most purposes other than either being creative or on a budget. But I have no idea how this neo-version will turn out. Kinda academic to me anyway. Since the demise of Ciba, I won't
be printing chromes anyway. An even more interesting film was high-speed Agfachrome back then. Conventional published wisdom was that you
couldn't print either one on Ciba, but I not only did it, but even did some expensive portrait work that way. Realistic no. Grainy with a bunch of
crossover, for sure. But nonetheless the end result was quite beautiful. Guess you could scan and inkjet them nowadays.
 
Wolfeye said:
I'm in for $70, how 'bout you?

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I was going to do $70, but are these from the first 500 rolls of 120?

Not that I can afford to do any of it right at the moment, but I figured $25 was about as much as I could handle for one of the first 500 numbered rolls.
 
Wow it's gone up $100,000 since I got off of work and saw it yesterday, it may just make it by tomorrow.
 
its $125K now
 
ChristopherCoy said:
I've never shot Ferrania, but its fun to think about the fact that I'd be a part of the revival.
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If you are over 40, you probably have. You just didn't know about it.

In many parts of the world, some private labels were supplied by Ferrania. At one point, private labels were the largest client for Ferrania.
Their film also existed labelled as 3M, Scotch, Imation or other labels from the parent company.
Ferrania returned to its former name in the early 2000s with newly formulated films like the C41 Solaris FG Plus range.

In the UK, Jessops, Bonusprint, Boots all used Ferrania film at one time.
 



I was just gifted a LOAD of it from a friend of mine. It was boxed as a store brand (Kroger) but it says "Made in Italy" on the box. He bought multiple 6 packs of it when Kroger was selling all their film stock on clearance. Most of the 6 packs were $2.00
 
Have fun with them!
 
If it says "made in Italy" it is Ferrania. I have some too that I bought under the York name. It is OK and a hell of a lot better than nothing!

Back in the 70s and 80s the K-Mart FOCAL brand was made by Ferrania. Cheap as hell and grainy but much better than any of Kodak's current offerings.

Amazing that EK just couldn't make a go of E6 films any longer but the kickstarter campaign is halfway over in just a day. Just goes to show that one man's trash really is another man's treasure. As they say: Go Ferrania!
 
Film Ferrania starts with a clean slate and can wait a while for profits. They also get the machinery for pennies. If FF fails, it fails, but it won't take anything with it other than people's hopes. Kodak Alaris have a lot of prior financial oblications and have to think very carefully about risks. KA needs to profit from what it already has before it can invest in new things.
 
I gave them a bit of money. I don't really care for slide film nowadays but if someone wants to buy film machinery and restart production they can have some money, that can only be a good thing. My hope is that they'll start with the old chromes they want to revive and hopefully they can do some C41 films in the future.
 
I believe they already said they will do some C41. The latest formulations from the former Ferrania Technologies were C41 in the form of the Solaris FG Plus films.
 
Thanks Noel!
Some I already knew and we discussed them recently.
It is nice to see what they were and how much Ferrania contributed to Lomography.
 
Less than $77,000 of $250,000 to go, and 25 days. I think this kickstarter campaign may be successful beyond their expectations.
 
I'm not giving them any cash, but I will buy their film if it ever appears.
 
In the interview with Film photography podcast, Dave Bias said they have all the old emulsion formulas and many from films never produced. That sounds awesome if they figure a way to make small batches of new (old formulas) without losing money. I really like shooting random film emulsions and would love it if they made batches of film and sold them in experiment packs.

Speculating: Maybe, just maybe they have some color infrared formula's or interesting military only formulas that are of no use in the military now they can sell to us!
 
trythis said:
Speculating: Maybe, just maybe they have some color infrared formula's or interesting military only formulas that are of no use in the military now they can sell to us!
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+1. Would love to try some color IR.
 
trythis said:
Speculating: Maybe, just maybe they have some color infrared formula's or interesting military only formulas that are of no use in the military now they can sell to us!
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The problem with this is that it generally worked the other way.

The military (or government, or some large industries) were willing to pay top dollar for huge quantities of very specialized, hard(er) to manufacture film. As those huge orders paid for making the stuff, it was economical to make just a bit more and sell it to the public.
 

That makes sense. But thinking of the R&D miniplant that they are using to produce this small batch for the kickstarter. They could produce enough during future testing of formulas to sell a few rolls.
 
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