twelvetone12
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Which stores? When did Dave address this? I can't find the reference
Regarding physical shops, when we are confident that our online customers are able to buy film without interruption, we will begin (very slowly, as capacity permits) to offer film to other retail outlets around the world.
Sorry I'm super confused now... Ferrania website says (Dead Link Removed)
Sorry I'm super confused now... Ferrania website says (Dead Link Removed)
The shops indeed have it in stock! Shouldn't shops have stock after the store is open? Am I missing something obvious?
€8.50 for a roll?
Firstly thanks Dave for continuing to come here to post! It is always interesting to hear your side of things despite the vitriol and and bizarre discussions that seem fake news going on. Which, BTW, are the main reason why I proposed to EOL this thread.
I'm curious about Carestream (which BTW their site is https://www.tollcoating.com/, I wonder the "toll" to pay!), wasn't it part of Kodak? What was the relationship between Ferrania and Kodak? I know Ferrania made Xray for big K, and sometime in the early 2000s they actually sold the whole division to them. But it seems their relationship was more complex (sorry, I'm curious, I'm a historian and scholar of the XVII century and I just can't help it)
The films is readily available in Italy. Many films stores carry it. Why the Ferrania Shop is still closed?
We had a very small amount of film left after the pre-sale. Not enough to re-open our online shop.
So we sent this small bit of film to a few shops who have been in contact with us for a long, long time. Two in the US, one in Canada and a distributor in Italy who services about 20 small shops.
A few of these shops may still have stock, but to the best of my knowledge, most of the film is sold out - and we won't be able to replenish the stock until after we re-open our online shop (currently on course for mid-January).
The one concern at the back of my mind is the mention back a week or two ago that the P30 sales so far have been about a "break even" proposition. (At least as far as the ones sold at the backer discount) I am wondering if their is not a more effecient way to make those sales, either by using a third party platform like Amazon, or ebay, or backing onto a existing photo distibution chain.
As far as the finishing backlog, I dont know who you are currently using for this step - and my few rolls of P30 gave me no clues, but the thought occurs that there are a few folks with lots of finishing capacity (one just on the east of europe and one just off the coast) who might respond to a package deal where they finish some film for you now, so that you can find out the profitable amount to sell) with a promise of a contact for both finishing and private label sales of the e6 film when it starts to flow. Certainly the one on the east of Europe has sold Old Ferrania colour Negative as a private label under the Equicolor trade-name.
Beau Photo in Vancouver. You can call them - they might still have a little bit of stock...Whereabouts in Canada?
Dave, Kodak and 3M were competitors. The Colorado plant was built in the '70s by Kodak and Kodak was recruiting Photo Engineers and Coating Engineers to move there. They built an ultra wide machine there for Endura Paper and medical products. That plant was bought by a Canadian company with the provision that they do toll coating for EK for the desired products, Papers. The medical products went to the Canadians and then they moved on. After the split, 3M may have been involved.
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Yes I agree, this could be a good option to get p30 out there, as there are many who load bulk rolls and would help speed up sales with less work required in packaging the product etc.Would it be feasible to sell bulk rolls of P30? Either in 135 or 120? I've never seen 120 in bulk, but I have about a hundred empty spools with backing paper (I'm crazy and don't throw them out) and could feasibly reload them in the dark. Bulk 135 would still need to be slit and perfed, but the packaging would be simpler. Just wondering. I love the P30 that I've shot so far and would like to try it in 120.
35mm bulk film would likely require that they get a perforator up and runing, it is unclear if they provided their "partner" with pre-perforated rolls. Also they might not have a machine that could put frame numbers on bulk rolls.
teh 35mm Cassette loading station that showed at the time of teh kickstarter was an all in one setup with did everything from bending flat casettes to perforating and packing the finshed rolls. I would guess that they would need their entire current staff to run it if it was still set up the way it was left with the old company shut down. Probably would do a few thousand rolls an hour.
that is the machine that Dave was looking for interest from another firm is going together on resurrecting.
if I was reading between the lines corectly from his last post, they need some sort of device like that running before it makes sense for them to coat some more film.
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