Europan
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Well, it isn’t that simple to make and sell film even when your machine runs right because
That would fit well as amateur-sunshine-fun-holidays stock in 16mm, Double-Eight, DS-8, and 9.5mm. The ISO 100, on a thicker base, would better make for 35mm ciné and stills stock. Ferrania won’t be able to compete with Kodak’s high speed Vision negatives, so the market segment clearly is an Ektachrome replacement.
Thinner-base film could be a powerful thing. Kodak and the others still don’t understand but to be able to put double a length in a camera, movie camera above all, is attractive. Imagine your 400-ft. magazine suddenly holding 800 feet or a little 50-ft. camera such as the Pathé Lido 9.5 loaded with 100 feet! A base thickness of 2.7 mils exists already with micro films.
- you have to coat bases of different thicknesses for stills film, 35mm, and 16mm stock;
- you have to perform different stockage techniques for the formats selling at slower and faster paces.
That would fit well as amateur-sunshine-fun-holidays stock in 16mm, Double-Eight, DS-8, and 9.5mm. The ISO 100, on a thicker base, would better make for 35mm ciné and stills stock. Ferrania won’t be able to compete with Kodak’s high speed Vision negatives, so the market segment clearly is an Ektachrome replacement.
Thinner-base film could be a powerful thing. Kodak and the others still don’t understand but to be able to put double a length in a camera, movie camera above all, is attractive. Imagine your 400-ft. magazine suddenly holding 800 feet or a little 50-ft. camera such as the Pathé Lido 9.5 loaded with 100 feet! A base thickness of 2.7 mils exists already with micro films.