Film Ferrania - Developments from October 2023 onward

Sombra

A
Sombra

  • 0
  • 0
  • 16
The Gap

H
The Gap

  • 5
  • 2
  • 59
Ithaki Steps

H
Ithaki Steps

  • 2
  • 0
  • 74
Pitt River Bridge

D
Pitt River Bridge

  • 6
  • 0
  • 82

Forum statistics

Threads
199,004
Messages
2,784,491
Members
99,765
Latest member
NicB
Recent bookmarks
0

dkirby

Member
Joined
Jul 27, 2015
Messages
29
Format
35mm
Did "it" ever look good for this venture.?
Pardon me for exaggerating a bit, but........... talk about rearranging the deck chairs on The Titanic

I think what makes the Ferrania saga so interesting is that there is a market for their films. For example, the site I linked to earlier is now sold out of their 2029-dated "pilot run," less than 24 hours after I shared the link here. Probably a total coincidence, but evidence either way that there are people who want to buy their films. The film was not in stock long.

If they can get their management problems out of the way and acheive consistent production, based on their products I think there is a path for them to become a notable player in the B&W market - certainly above Orwo, Rollei, etc, possibly "third" behind Kodak and Harman.
 
  • dkirby
  • Deleted
Joined
Nov 15, 2017
Messages
523
Location
?
Format
Analog
"riavviamento e settaggio" means restarting and fine-tuning. If everything stopped and they are indeed restarting production, it would be good news.

With Orwo it said the same, somewhere it was noted that they move to a better suited building to improve production. About 1.5 years ago sellout of B&W movie film (16mm and 35m) happened - and since then no new B&W movie film came into the webstore.
Someone said they even sold machinery to produce such stock. Does anyone happen to know who bought this machines?
 

dkirby

Member
Joined
Jul 27, 2015
Messages
29
Format
35mm
With Orwo it said the same, somewhere it was noted that they move to a better suited building to improve production. About 1.5 years ago sellout of B&W movie film (16mm and 35m) happened - and since then no new B&W movie film came into the webstore.
Someone said they even sold machinery to produce such stock. Does anyone happen to know who bought this machines?

Yikes.

I don't want to derail the conversation, but as I never really followed the Orwo stuff, could someone provide a succinct summary of what happened as it might pertain to Ferrania's future? I was under the impression that at least some Orwo films were readily available.
 
OP
OP
koraks

koraks

Moderator
Moderator
Joined
Nov 29, 2018
Messages
23,105
Location
Europe
Format
Multi Format
Someone said they even sold machinery to produce such stock.
There hasn't been a film manufacturer by the name of Orwo for a very long time. It's a brand, not a manufacturer. Manufacturing has been done over the past few years by InovisCoat AFAIK, and they are a fabless outfit renting time on the production facilities of Polaroid. There's a bit of a complex and dynamic arrangement with Jake Seal as an important protagonist going on involving several companies operating under the name ORWO, as well as InovisCoat and FilmoTec. None of them have actual film manufacturing (coating) capacity. Ferrania would presently add that asset to the family.

could someone provide a succinct summary of what happened as it might pertain to Ferrania's future?
Summary: ask @Henning Serger, he can summarize this like no other. Ferrania's future: your guess is as good as mine. So far it's unclear what the exact plans of Seal are with the cluster of legal entities he has been accumulating, discontinuing, reviving etc. And then there's the quite possibly significant gap between his plans and reality.
 

Henning Serger

Subscriber
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
2,196
Format
Multi Format
Summary: ask @Henning Serger, he can summarize this like no other.

The wish of the forum members here is my command 🙂.
There is indeed lots of misinformation circling around. Lots of it coming from youtubers with no knowledge about film production, and especially no knowledge about the European and German film manufacturers. This misinformation is then repeated in social media groups like reddit, instagram, facebook.

Best is probably to explain the whole complex situation in its own dedicated thread, and in full detail. I hope to find time for that in the coming weeks.

Best regards,
Henning
 

Chuck1

Member
Joined
Jul 4, 2022
Messages
675
Location
Arlington ma
Format
Multi Format
The wish of the forum members here is my command 🙂.
There is indeed lots of misinformation circling around. Lots of it coming from youtubers with no knowledge about film production, and especially no knowledge about the European and German film manufacturers. This misinformation is then repeated in social media groups like reddit, instagram, facebook.

Best is probably to explain the whole complex situation in its own dedicated thread, and in full detail. I hope to find time for that in the coming weeks.

Best regards,
Henning

Do you know anything about adox,
What might be in the works?
 

mshchem

Subscriber
Joined
Nov 26, 2007
Messages
14,700
Location
Iowa City, Iowa USA
Format
Medium Format
The wish of the forum members here is my command 🙂.
There is indeed lots of misinformation circling around. Lots of it coming from youtubers with no knowledge about film production, and especially no knowledge about the European and German film manufacturers. This misinformation is then repeated in social media groups like reddit, instagram, facebook.

Best is probably to explain the whole complex situation in its own dedicated thread, and in full detail. I hope to find time for that in the coming weeks.

Best regards,
Henning

Maybe a topic for an article with Silvergrain Classics??
 
Photrio.com contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.
To read our full affiliate disclosure statement please click Here.

PHOTRIO PARTNERS EQUALLY FUNDING OUR COMMUNITY:



Ilford ADOX Freestyle Photographic Stearman Press Weldon Color Lab Blue Moon Camera & Machine
Top Bottom