I will hopefully put this mini-thread to rest by saying that it is highly unlikely that FILM Ferrania will make new APS film. It is only slightly more likely that we will make 126 film - and that's mostly because it's just plain-old 35mm film in a different cartridge.
We don't hate APS. It had some amazing features that were under-marketed and under-utilized by camera makers, which is tragic on some level and worthy of lament (perhaps on its own thread?).
But it never really caught on in a big way, then its life was cut short by the introduction of digital capture. And also the lab problems that were mentioned by someone earlier.
So although we generally have a "never say never" attitude about the potential to resurrect old formats, I think it's pretty safe to say that APS is all the way down at the bottom of the list. Like, so far down that it's dangling by the S.
Yes, i would agree.
35mm is very much more appealing to me than APS, but i think your "never say never" attitude is good.
To reintroduce any format, obviously you would need to conduct market research, and there would have to be significant interest/demand to produce APS. I for one would not be bothered the slightest if we never saw APS again.
Film Ferrania is still in its infancy we can all agree, so Im not expecting you to introduce every format imaginable or any others straight away for that matter either.
Lomography has reintroduced 110, so i dont think 126 should be ruled out, in fact it would not surprise me if lomography reintroduced 126 in the future. I very much would love to shoot 126 format and take photos that were reminiscent of those my father shot in the 70's well before i was born.
And as ive mentioned earlier, it may be better to let other companies such as lomography to produce such formats themselves if they were open to the idea, they buy film stock from AGFA and convert it to 110 under their own brand. If Film Ferrania was happy to supply bulk rolls to lomography for conversion, i would be more than happy to buy it from them if it meant i was able to buy 126, 110 etc than not to have any 126 film at all if you can see where im coming from.
Anyway i just like talking about this because im so passionate about people being to shoot film in as many cameras as possible, but i do understand the reality that not everything will be possible, so im certainly not expecting every film format ever made to once more be available.
I just cant wait to shoot some Film Ferrania next year!
If any of the Ferrania team is reading, you are doing an excellent job and i know your probably all heads down, so keep up the good work, im just happy to see another E6 offering to the market, and if all i ever saw produced from Film Ferrania was the E6 formats that you have offered in the kickstarter promo, well i still would be very happy with that
