Film in 2017

[Zorkiphoto]

Hello all

I published a long-read feature on my blog on the weekend (4,500 words, so you might want to put the kettle on) and interviewed various bigwigs at Kodak, Ilford and Film Ferrania - aswell as Adox and others - to get a sense of just how healthy film is after the recent positive news of new films.

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The consensus seems to be that the market hasn't stopped growing. While it will only ever become a fraction of what film photographers enjoyed 20 years ago, the growth is continuing. Kids reared on digital, it seems, are looking for something different.

Cheers

S

 

[flavio81]

Hello all

I published a long-read feature on my blog on the weekend (4,500 words, so you might want to put the kettle on) and interviewed various bigwigs at Kodak, Ilford and Film Ferrania - aswell as Adox and others - to get a sense of just how healthy film is after the recent positive news of new films.

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The consensus seems to be that the market hasn't stopped growing. While it will only ever become a fraction of what film photographers enjoyed 20 years ago, the growth is continuing. Kids reared on digital, it seems, are looking for something different.

Cheers

S

Hi,

Your article is nicely illustrated. I catched some things that were not entirely correct:

The past five years have left only two companies still producing slide film – Fujifilm and Agfaphoto.

AgfaPhoto slide product is just rebranded slide film made by Fuji. So they are not producing slide film. We only have one (1) company manufacturing slide film and i think this is THE key issue with the status of slide films today.

The latter’s sole slide-film is mainly aimed at the Lomography market and sold under the Lomography/Rollei brands for cross-processing as a negative.

In this case you mean not AgfaPhoto but (what formerly was) Agfa, which is the manufacturer for the Rollei brand. However, the sources here indicate that such film (Agfa Aviphot Chrome 200) is not produced anymore, just existing stock.

The interview with Mirko (ADOX) is great and enlightening.

Don't forget to include that Bergger is releasing a new film this year - Panchro 400.

 

[AgX]

Agfaphoto is no longer a manufacturing company. It only was for a few months after the splitting off of the Agfa consumer department under the name AgfaPhoto.
With the insolvency of AgfaPhoto though a holding company of the same name remained. Their major asset being the right to use the AgfaPhoto brand.

 

[AgX]

In this case you mean not AgfaPhoto but (what formerly was) Agfa, ...

... and still is.

 

[AgX]

Agfa, which is the manufacturer for the Rollei brand.

The major manufacturer. And of, not for.

 

[flavio81]

... and still is.

But what is the current name of the division that coats the film?
Wasn't this done now by InovisCoat ?

 

[AgX]

Agfa still is one of the largest manufacturers of film.

Inoviscoat is by no means related to Agfa, except for buying one of the coaters out of the AgfaPhoto insolvency and their founders originating from Agfa. Though Inoviscoat was founded long before that.

 

[Zorkiphoto]

Thank you all for that info - I'll tweak the post tonight to correct those.

I must admit, I've been confused in the past about what happened to Agfa and who owns what from it...

Cheers

S

 

[AgX]

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[flavio81]

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Yes, but the last message from you is from 2007, that's 10 years ago.
I don't know if they still coat still camera film there in 2016/2017.

 

[AgX]

The situation is basically not different from 2007. The last camera films in the classis meaning they make are those aerial films. But that range has strongly shrunk over the last years.
But they still make taking films for radiography, lithography and micrography.