It was hard to coat.
It's not going to look like Velvia, and it's not going to look like Portra. I am sure it will look much closer to old E100G than to any other emulsion out there.But, I still emphatically state that it will be different for a number of reasons.
It's not going to look like Velvia, and it's not going to look like Portra. I am sure it will look much closer to old E100G than to any other emulsion out there.
Dave, while discussion has been focused on still film my interest in this project has been the production of Super8 and 16mm color reversal film. The Kodak release says nothing at all about Ektachrome being available as film stock. I first heard about the Ferrania project on Super 8 sites. Is movie film stock still a priority and could 16 mm be in the offering?
Just curious, is there any collector value for old VAX computers? I am reminded of flint tools.
Something even more complex than that!
PE
This is our understanding as well. According to Marco, they have quite a task ahead of them that is perhaps even more difficult than our own. However, since Kodak's resources are exponentially greater than our own, we hope they can deliver something quite similar to the original Ektachrome in a reasonable amount of time.
Perhaps more importantly, we hope that Kodak's announcement helps to arrest the discontinuation of E6 processing that is happening every day around the globe.
Something even more complex than that!
PE
Since I mentioned the hoarding issue, I've seen a number of posts defending stockpiling to control costs or to ensure that you can continue to use a "dead" product. These are of course entirely valid reasons, and, in fact, I don't consider APUG-ers to be the problem. My post was simply to point out my friend's incredulity about the "pride" of Instagrammers who posted smartphone pics of unused film in the wake of Kodak's announcement.
As noted in our last two updates, we are approaching ALL film we make from a "cinema-first" perspective. In other words, it must work as cinema film before we produce it AT ALL.
OK, this is interesting, because Ive read that its intended to re-introduce solaris at some point.
Does this mean you are exploring ways to make this film for cine use also?
Well, to be perfectly honest, we haven't given even the first thought to C-41 films at this point...
But in general, yes, we will approach all films as if they need to run at high speed through a cine camera - which ensures a certain level of quality and consistency that is obviously very important to us since we only have the one coater to produce all formats.
Is it just me, or is every photographic dye and every chemical essential to processing declared a HAZMAT two years after it is introduced?
(Okay, maybe exaggerating, a little).
Are the Guessers including me correct that the Super 8 and 35mm Slide versions will likely be cut from the same "coating event" as Mr. Seabrooke called it.
Well the cine version of Ektachrome was still on acetate base prior to it being discontinued, so I dont expect them to change that, its all extra cost and usually polyester is reserved for final projection prints in the theatre like on the ECP-2 films.It will depend on what base Kodak will decide on for the cine film.
Yes that was an exception, along with wittnerchrome 200 on the agfa base.All Fuji Single-8 films were on PET-base.
Must have been a real old projector, because all the modern ones were designed to handle it properly.I learned of one case of a commercial 35mm projector that was badly harmed. But that is the only case I know of.
BTW, do you intend to offer a lab service for the cine films?
OK, that sounds fine, It will be a while before i start shooting any more super8, but I had been sending it to europe for processing (all the way from New Zealand) so is not a big deal to me, and would prefer to use Ferrania for processing if such a service was offered, although I do believe there is supposed to be a motion picture lab starting up here that will be offering the service at some point.As with so many things, we hope to do this, yes. We have the equipment and it's already in the LRF (not in storage)... But remember, our six people are 100% focused on production and this will remain their focus after production begins. We'll need to hire new staff for this specific purpose - and our priority for new hires will be to support expansion of production, not processing.
Choices for cine processing are slim for sure, but we think it's far better to push support to those who already do it - so that they continue to do it. And even if we offer the service ourselves, we think the number of people who will choose to ship their precious cine film rolls to rural Italy will be small.
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