Hello APUG from FILM Ferrania

[flavio81]

Despite the recent burst of tongue-in-cheek posts, I am still watching and listening...

If I haven't mentioned it yet - THANK YOU for all the great questions, suggestions, tangents, good sense, and even the utter nonsense!

I'll be semi-officially checked out from Dec 21 until Jan 2 - but I'll probably lurk a bit if I get bored...

If you celebrate the season in any way - have a great one!

-Dave

Thanks Dave!! Happy holidays to you and to the brave team at the Ferrania facilities!

 

[Nzoomed]

Despite the recent burst of tongue-in-cheek posts, I am still watching and listening...

If I haven't mentioned it yet - THANK YOU for all the great questions, suggestions, tangents, good sense, and even the utter nonsense!

I'll be semi-officially checked out from Dec 21 until Jan 2 - but I'll probably lurk a bit if I get bored...

If you celebrate the season in any way - have a great one!

-Dave

Hi Dave,
I hope the team at Film Ferrania get a well deserved break too!
Just a question regarding the postcards, should we expect them to arrive before Christmas?

Take care, enjoy your holidays.

No I am both serious and sirius about not wanting to wasting Ferrania's time with an obsolete, costly to manufacture and difficult to process slide film the is inferior to Kodak Ektachrome and Fujichrome. There is no future for Kodachrome.

Well i do agree with you!

 

[Sirius Glass]

I agree with your opinion on you-know-which film. I'm also serious and tried to help the Anti-K14-Brigade (of which I am a proud member) by means of a tonge-in-cheek post.

I know.

 

[Roger Cole]

I'm puzzled that nobody has mentioned this yet: Will ferrania bring back Kodachrome 25? Because we need this film and nothing was worse in history of photography than losing that film. It gave us those nice bright colors, the greens of summer. It made us think the world was a sunny day. It made us think that a masochistic 14-step development process which involved critical reexposure to different colors and included waiting 1 month for getting your film back was somehow acceptable. Everything looks worse in black and white.
I'm puzzled that nobody has mentioned this yet. So will ferrania bring back Kodachrome 40? And how about Kodachrome 64? It gave us those nice bright colors, the greens of summer. It made us think the world was a sunny day. Or Kodachrome 200... Yes, it was grainy, but it had nice colors, the greens of summer. It made us think the world was a moderately-sunny day. So what are Ferrania's plans regarding Kodachrome?

I'm puzzled that nobody has mentioned this yet. So let's hope that Ferrania confirms that the factory is resurrecting Kodachrome 25 in 818, APS, Minox, subminiature-16mm, and 620 formats please. Along with 8x10" glass plates and their new Infrared version of Kodachrome.

*facepalm*

Let me google that for you.

 

[StoneNYC]

Let me google that for you.

Missed it... Lol

 

[FILM Ferrania]

Just a question regarding the postcards, should we expect them to arrive before Christmas?

For USA residents, anything ordered before Friday will make it before Christmas, no problem.

 

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For USA residents, anything ordered before Friday will make it before Christmas, no problem.

OK sweet, im in New Zealand, so i may be a little later but thats OK.

Is there any more new photos of the progress made with big boy?
Im so excited to see production starting.

 

[FILM Ferrania]

Just a question regarding the postcards, should we expect them to arrive before Christmas?

Ignore my last post - I figured out you were talking about the "Postcards from Italy" Kickstarter reward - not the postcard sets we're selling online. (I can be slow sometimes)

We were really hoping everyone would get them pre-Christmas, however, we are concerned at this point. The cards were made here in the US and they have not yet arrived in Italy.

The are pre-addressed and ready to be signed, and Nicola is ready to sign them all and get them out quickly. But we're having a tough time estimating their arrival worldwide.

We're posting an update on Kickstarter about it tomorrow.

 

[Nzoomed]

Ignore my last post - I figured out you were talking about the "Postcards from Italy" Kickstarter reward - not the postcard sets we're selling online. (I can be slow sometimes)

We were really hoping everyone would get them pre-Christmas, however, we are concerned at this point. The cards were made here in the US and they have not yet arrived in Italy.

The are pre-addressed and ready to be signed, and Nicola is ready to sign them all and get them out quickly. But we're having a tough time estimating their arrival worldwide.

We're posting an update on Kickstarter about it tomorrow.

No worries, i can wait if there will be a delay, i can imagine there will be alot of work for Nicola signing them all!

Just bought a pentax Spotmatic, so ill have something new to shoot all my Ferrania with in 2015!

 

[StoneNYC]

I know you know this already but, are you guys going to get in on this?

http://petapixel.com/2015/01/05/fuj...ajor-film-factories-europe-heres-look-inside/

 

[FILM Ferrania]

I know you know this already but, are you guys going to get in on this?

http://petapixel.com/2015/01/05/fuj...ajor-film-factories-europe-heres-look-inside/

Our founder Marco Pagni is going through the inventory to see if there is anything we absolutely can't live without - but it seems unlikely we will touch that stuff.

 

[StoneNYC]

Our founder Marco Pagni is going through the inventory to see if there is anything we absolutely can't live without - but it seems unlikely we will touch that stuff.

Maybe you can discover the secret machine that gives 2 minute reciprocity times hah! But seriously, good luck.

 

[TheToadMen]

I know you know this already but, are you guys going to get in on this?

http://petapixel.com/2015/01/05/fuj...ajor-film-factories-europe-heres-look-inside/

I can remember that Fuji came to Holland and built that huge plant. My mother worked for the department that helped convincing Fuji to come to Tilburg, The Netherlands in the 1980's.

 

[railwayman3]

Our founder Marco Pagni is going through the inventory to see if there is anything we absolutely can't live without - but it seems unlikely we will touch that stuff.

Wasn't the plant mainly or wholly for color paper manufacture, rather than film? (Although I have an old Fuji consumer film box from 1990's which says Made in EU.....perhaps just finished in this plant?)

(Purely by co-incidence, I also have an old Orwochrome film mailer from the early 1970's, which gives one of their official processing labs as a PO Box number in Tilburg.)

 

[pbromaghin]

The Founder's Wall is up!

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The Founder's Wall is up!

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Yes i found my name there yesterday.
We are making history guys!

 

[TheToadMen]

The Founder's Wall is up!

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Total 35 mm rolls: 7139 pieces
Total 120 roll films: 5082 pieces
Total Super 8 carts: 594 pieces
Total 16 mm reels: 332 pieces

Impressive!

 

[Trail Images]

Is there a list that is alphabetical or an excel file for sorting the wall?.....been through it twice now and did not see my name or a good friends name listed either.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

My formal name is there.

Formal so that after I'm dead you guys will know which plot to leave the thank-you flowers on...

:eek:

Ken

 

[cmacd123]

Is there a list that is alphabetical or an excel file for sorting the wall?.....been through it twice now and did not see my name or a good friends name listed either.

Probably deliberately in random order, or perhaps in the order the pledges came in.

Use "find in page" (often Control f) to search for a part of your name.

 

[Trail Images]

Probably deliberately in random order, or perhaps in the order the pledges came in.

Use "find in page" (often Control f) to search for a part of your name.

Thank you so much Charles for the search tip. I was sure it would be listed at random, but just needed the search process after two passes on the list without seeing it.
By the way, when searching it has to be exact. I'd forgotten I used my middle initial. I need to ask my buddy how he had his listed now too.

 

[Ektagraphic]

I wonder how much of a coating run this Kickstarter set will take up

 

[FILM Ferrania]

Probably deliberately in random order, or perhaps in the order the pledges came in.

Use "find in page" (often Control f) to search for a part of your name.

The names are sorted by Backer Number - the core stat that Kickstarter uses to refer to all backers. This puts them (pretty much) in chronological order based on when they pledged.

Since many folks didn't give a last name and since some last names are difficult to discern, we felt it was best to leave the list sorted by backer number.

 

[FILM Ferrania]

I wonder how much of a coating run this Kickstarter set will take up

Based on recent discussions with the Italian team, they anticipate the coating run to be 3-4 days.

That's to make a mini-jumbo only. One giant spool of 100 ASA coated stock about 20cm wide.

Then it goes into the slitter and gets cut to width based on an optimization scheme the team has developed to yield the most usable material and the least waste.

Then it goes to finishing to get spooled. We are likely to outsource this for this preliminary run rather that occupy resources hooking up our finishing equipment.

Then it goes to packaging. Every package will be hand-folded, every roll hand-inserted, every finished box hand-numbered.

The parts that don't include coating will take approximately 30 days total.

At least, this is our schedule as it stands today.

 

[Nzoomed]

Hi Dave,
I got my postcard from Italy today!
Anyone else got theirs yet?
Im in New Zealand, so i was quite impressed how fast it arrived.