Does the contrast pumps up when pushing Provia to 400? It would be great to have on a medium format camera.
BTW, do you know if Agfa Aviphot 200 pushes well? (leaving the strange color casts aside...)
Slap on a warming filter and take her to E200 - EI400. No problems. At least one of Fujifilm's offerings has versatility and good behaviour built in!
Does the contrast pumps up when pushing Provia to 400? It would be great to have on a medium format camera.
BTW, do you know if Agfa Aviphot 200 pushes well? (leaving the strange color casts aside...)
The "strange" (but normal) colour cast is why I am not using Rollei CR200 [Aviphot]; I can't stand the lomo-look stuff!
Following hot on the heels of the resurrection of Ektachrome comes a titillating rumour...
Just for a laugh, because I know some people get excited about this sort of thing
https://petapixel.com/2017/01/09/kodak-investigating-take-bring-back-kodachrome/
Haha, I hadn't spotted that oneGlad people are having fun!
I notice new people was added to "The Team" on Ferrania's webpage:
Ivano del Prato - Covered in an earlier, exciting video on Ferrania's page, preparing the "purple stuff" (a sensitizer). I guess this is the most difficult part of all the chemical processes required for making a film.
Luisa Tavella - "Our Product Specialist and researcher for photographic emulsion making at industrial scale. Luisa holds a number of patents and has knows the film manufacturing process from end to end."
Indeed, i've done a Google Patents Search and Luisa does hold patents on photographical emulsions for Ferrania SpA.
I've also seen that Ferrania holds many many patents, some of them going back to 1958 (and then cited by other companies like Kodak, Polaroid, etc.; and viceversa of course)
I also see some of these patents related to photo film are as recent as 2005, which for me is a good thing, that means they kept doing R&D all the way while films were still generally used (more or less in 2007-2008 you could argue digital really took over in a general way)
Giuseppe Valle - "A high-precision mechanical technician, every day Beppe takes care that all our custom factory equipment is in perfect working order."
It's good to know they have a resident/permanent person for this, since they have a lot of machines to go through a CLACT (clean, lube, adjust, calibrate, test)
I guess Giuseppe is busy full time right now!
Dave, i wonder if anyone from The Team would like to participate here in this thread...
The idea of a combo brick of film + dev kit sized for that quantity of film is quite nice, I would surely buy it!
And many other would do the same. Now think, how an independent lab would see the same situation:
Ferrania would be crazy to offer such a process, and crazy beyond redemption if they made any public statement even if they had plans to do so.
- if Ferrania publicly announced an affordable service for super 8, any other lab would immediately stop any investments
- after all investments have ground to a stop, machinery would continue to break
- one lab after another would stop processing this film
- by the time Kodak & Ferrania appear with their product, the medium would be more or less extinct except for a few dedicated home processors, and both companies would face a steep uphill battle to get it running again.
You seem to have a funny idea of free market.
It's the same kind of idea that make somebody think that the new Ektachrome is a menace for Ferrania.
It isn't. It's a blessing.
If Ferrania publicly announced an affordable service for Super8, IMHO any other lab would immediately plan new investments, because they would trust in the future of the technology!
Firms don't easily prosper in isolation. Slide film would end up like Betamax. They need a "cottage industry", a "culture" behind their products. A "culture" means, in this case, projectors, screens, scanners, cameras, laboratories, archival papers, etc.
A firm cannot provide the entire "culture", cannot nourish the entire industry.
What Ferrania or Kodak can do is to "anchor expectations" about the future of slide film.
By guaranteeing developing to people in places where developing at the moment is problematic they make certain that slide film remains alive, and so they give reasons for investments to all the cottage industry. That's IMHO.
Haha, I hadn't spotted that oneGlad people are having fun!
We really hope to push customers to labs as a first priority, because as many have pointed out, the lab situation is growing more desperate by the day - but we also want to encourage and support DIY processing by offering dev kits (with the caveat that some chemistry is difficult to ship globally to direct customers and so we'll perhaps need to use licensed distributors or other partners to make these kits available globally).
Hi Dave,
This intersects, because due to E6 processing being now a low demand service, what the labs need now is small scale E6 developing kits. Bigger than a home DIY kit, of course, but way smaller than what a lab used to purchase back in the good old days.
When i consulted the owner of my local lab on why he is about to discontinue E6 processing in the short term, he told me it wasn't because of lack of chemistry; but that because the volume of orders was so small, this chemistry will soon expire long before being used fully. So either a really long lasting set of chemicals (can't see if this is possible) or a rightly-sized kit would be beneficial.
As always, thanks for your replies.
Greetings,
Flavio.
Yes, expiring chemistry is of course a big problem with low-volume labs. For obvious reasons, we hope to first connect with high-volume labs and direct business to them as much as possible. Eventually, when we can produce processing chemistry ourselves (sooner than later, I've been told!), we can work with lower-volume labs to make sure that we sell in realistic volumes and reasonable prices.
Hi Dave,
So either a really long lasting set of chemicals (can't see if this is possible) or a rightly-sized kit would be beneficial.
Greetings,
Flavio.
Thankfully, long lasting chemicals seem to be a speciality for Ferrania!
As a side note of how the slide market is not dead yet, I would like to point you to this product, which appears to be new:
http://93163.mailings.netinventors....ampaign=EN_KW_03&utm_content=Mailing_11000179
It's a new, slimmer light box!
What is interesting in this is that there is people which is working at making a new product that can basically be used only for slide film. Gives me optimism.
PS I am not connected with the product or the seller. I received this ad with their newsletter, to which I subscribed.
Hopefully by simply producing in reasonable and realistic volumes for labs and consumers, we will reduce the danger of a bottle going bad.
I've recently acquired one of those inexpensive new LED light panels.
It is great. It is light in weight, gives me enough space to view an 8.5" x 11" negative or slide holder sheet in one go, and it is thin enough to put into the smallest of briefcases.
It will run off the power of a USB port on a laptop, or a small wall plug. It may run off of one of those backup cell phone batteries, if you have a big enough one.
The light colour isn't bad. The fact that it is dimmable is very handy.
It is a great way of showing off slides.
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