I fail to understand what Stone's latest filmic agonies have to do Film Ferrania and their production plans ...
Personally, im feeling along the same lines as this.Sooo...
According to the text at the bottom of the video link I posted, Film Ferrania is set to make a "big announcement" in mid-September. That's only four weeks away. How cool is that? Anyone wanna' bet whether there is a companion announcement by a certain large west coast (USA) film retailer shortly afterwards? Just a WAG (wild ass guess).
My guess is that Ferrania announces E-6 compatible cine film first, as that seems to have been their original motivation. Followed relatively closely by some 135 E-6. I don't expect to see 120 or sheet films for quite a while, even though they were quick early on to say they could do those as well.
I find it interesting that they seem to claim the delay thus far has been to work within a timetable for demolition of unneeded older manufacturing space, but on a schedule that will allow them to seek funding to "save" some of the production equipment they say they will need.
Originally I thought they said they didn't need any of that older (larger?) infrastructure. Rank speculation here, but I wonder if they took note of the abandonment of E-6 film by Kodak, followed by the continuing reduction of C-41/E-6 lines by Fujifilm, and decided their original plan wasn't likely to be able to handle the entire remaining residual worldwide color film demand after the other players eventually quit the market entirely.
So maybe they changed plans in the middle of the process and decided to preserve some of the other equipment? And they didn't have the capital under their original plan to do that, so the Italian government stepped in to lend a hand? The prospect of having a potential worldwide monopoly on color film in the near future, even at only residual volumes, might have sounded just too good to pass up?
Just thinkin' out loud...
Ken
Ok send me your 8x10 projector and I'll use that.... *facepalm*
Projecting your sheet film with an overhead? For one what use is that if you're trying to sell prints.... and two, you'll end up scratching your film... No thank you...
Personally, im feeling along the same lines as this.
Its not a bad thing, but will the equipment being used still be too big for the production? Or are they expecting that they will sell plenty of volume?
It really sucks that kodak has dropped everything E6, we should campaign hard on their facebook page. It would be good if they could licence the product for ferrania to produce, but i hope that their E6 lines replace what was taken away by kodak and Fuji, and that is high speed E6 film.
I even submitted an awesome photo for their photo of the day, which was taken on ektachrome e100g and it never got selected, partially because of it being a discontnued film i guess. This is the photo here:
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I would like to see a film that is a good replacement for e100g and e100vs if nothing else.
IIRC the first couple of films they were working on were 100 speed emulsions.
E100G = Provia100f
E100VS = Velvia50 / Velvia100
Not the same, but especially Velvia100 is sort of the same (I think better).
Your opinions may differ
Ok send me your 8x10 projector and I'll use that.... *facepalm*
Thanks PE when the time comes to do it in school I will.
It really is, a lot of people here just like to argue for no reason just to be difficult. I highly doubt if you took Portra and made an interneg if a Velvia50 image, and then optically printed it, that the saturation of color apparent in the original transparency would be at all comparable to the print.
Color film developing and printing is hard enough already without adding more complications to the process.
And projecting your sheet film with an overhead? For one what use is that if you're trying to sell prints.... and two, you'll end up scratching your film... No thank you...
I can project Provia 100F. It looks great. When I project Ektar, the colors are all wrong, and there's this hideous mask too.
There. There's your comparison. But seriously, both films are nice, but for different reasons.
Yes they do.
How on earth have you put E100VS and Velvia 50 on the same or like basket? They are definitely not comparable, nor like-for-like nor "sort of the same". The palettes are worlds apart. A good example would be to view an Ilfochrome print of Kodak's stuff vs one produced on RVP 50 (but not RVP 100F!): note the BIG differences. Kodak's pasty E6 palette was widely panned as a dud amongst landscape photographers, especially those printing to Ilfochrome Classic media. I predict somebody is now going to compare Ektar with Provia 100F again, a story in itself.
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What really sucks is that Kodak (and apparently now Fuji too) are essentially abandoning film but, as market leaders, they are holding on tight to their knowledge bases, even though they think them economically useless, and not allowing anyone else who might want to try and make a go of it to try, even under strict license.
What really sucks is that Kodak (and apparently now Fuji too) are essentially abandoning film but, as market leaders, they are holding on tight to their knowledge bases, even though they think them economically useless, and not allowing anyone else who might want to try and make a go of it to try, even under strict license. Actual human knowledge prevented from being known, despite the fact the holders of that knowledge don't want to use it anymore. Worse, actual human achievements being kept secret from the annals of history.
Don't forget the 100 mile-per-gallon carburetor that the oil companies bought up all those years ago!
What really sucks is that Kodak (and apparently now Fuji too) are essentially abandoning film but, as market leaders, they are holding on tight to their knowledge bases, even though they think them economically useless, and not allowing anyone else who might want to try and make a go of it to try, even under strict license. Actual human knowledge prevented from being known, despite the fact the holders of that knowledge don't want to use it anymore. Worse, actual human achievements being kept secret from the annals of history.
Rubbish film coating process like any manufacturing process is a black art, Kodak could not restart Plusx film manufacture from Harrow UKs plant, if they wanted to unless you gave them a few tens of million pounds.
They stopped 2005.
Try the new impossible film it still does not compare with Polariod yet... although it is a lot better.
It is like getting a man back on the moon again.
We buried Fotokemia cause we fed a dying yellow dinosaur...
Then again ilford can easily coat the Rollie IR films... So...
I thought the Rollei IR films are Agfa product?
Tom
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