To be expected coating film is non trivial it is not like painting a fence, don't worry.
I got an email last night from Film Ferrania informing me that my reward has been pushed back because of factory problems. While the email insisted that they are still going to produce film, I'm wondering how this setback will affect the factory/dream as a whole?
To be expected coating film is non trivial it is not like painting a fence, don't worry.
I got an email last night from Film Ferrania informing me that my reward has been pushed back because of factory problems. While the email insisted that they are still going to produce film, I'm wondering how this setback will affect the factory/dream as a whole?
When I contributed to the KS campaign I never once imagined that they were going to meet the published schedule. This is just too big of an undertaking. There had to be gazillions of unknowns lurking that would blow any good faith best guess estimates right out of the water. It's exactly the reason why investor funding is so risky and hard to come by for any new endeavor.
I also didn't contribute just to get a handful of rolls of E-6 film. I don't care when the rewards are fulfilled. I don't care if the rewards are fulfilled. That was never a high priority for me. The priority for me is to get a new, scaled, long-term, sustainable, quality film company off the ground and up and running. That's why I contributed.
If and when I ever do receive my rewards I may simply just give them away in an attempt to further jump start Ferrania's customer base. Because if it works, we'll all have all of the color film our hearts desire down the road.
So I'm not concerned in the slightest. Especially as this sounds to be a non-film technology related bump in the road.
Ken
There's a post on their website about it. The slip in schedule is 4-6 weeks at the moment. I'm not too worried about a 4-6 week slip because remember, they initially said they'd produce film in first quarter 2014. That slipped to summer 2015 for film for sale. Another 4-6 weeks isn't that much in the grand scheme of things. Now if they'd said their coater broke and they'd have to have a new part manufactured for it, I'd be concerned.
I got an email last night from Film Ferrania informing me that my reward has been pushed back because of factory problems. While the email insisted that they are still going to produce film, I'm wondering how this setback will affect the factory/dream as a whole?
Cold/wet winters seems to be a theme lately, my electric bill was almost double from the cold of Feb, here in PA. I'm wondering though about the need to bring in portable heaters. Was that because the building is poorly insulated that the HVAC system couldn't keep up? OR was something else in play?
As far as the 4-6 weeks go, I'm not worried either. I would prefer they take their time and do the job right rather than adhere to an artificially set timetable. Keep going Ferrania! I'm very much looking forward to the new film.
Wow. Hope the guys in Italy can get a more efficient (less costly to operate) HVAC system in place soon. I remember my mom's store in the 1980s had a boiler and steam registers for heat. It was a warm heat, but took air some time after the boiler kicked on to start putting out heat, and quite a while after the boiler shut off to stop pumping heat.
When they have film for sale this should get a bit easier to raise funds for going forward. Go Ferrania!
You have not modelled why Agfa, Efke and Ferranni all closed down and Ilford and Kodak went bust...
I'm guessing that the old "modem room" is inside the asbestos area, so they are still disconnected from internet ...
Bert from Holland
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Why so gloomy ? Few could foresee the catastrophic drop in demand for analog products after the remarkably fast development of digital, in all its forms from high-quality SLR's to excellent cameras in smartphones for the snapshotters.
The demise of Agfa, the original Ferrania and Ilford companies, and Kodak's problems were, I'm sure, down to this and perhaps the issues of being part of larger conglomorates. Efke could no longer afford, from existing revenues, the essential maintenance of its plant and buildings (which I read were more valuable as development land? ).
Fuji seems to have supported film as a niche part of its other businesses, and Harman/Ilford have reorganised into a specialist business of a viable size for the existing B&W analog markets. Why shouldn't Ferrania be able to do the same for the colour/cine markets ?
Why so gloomy ? Few could foresee the catastrophic drop in demand for analog products after the remarkably fast development of digital, in all its forms from high-quality SLR's to excellent cameras in smartphones for the snapshotters.
The demise of Agfa, the original Ferrania and Ilford companies, and Kodak's problems were, I'm sure, down to this and perhaps the issues of being part of larger conglomorates. Efke could no longer afford, from existing revenues, the essential maintenance of its plant and buildings (which I read were more valuable as development land? ).
Fuji seems to have supported film as a niche part of its other businesses, and Harman/Ilford have reorganised into a specialist business of a viable size for the existing B&W analog markets. Why shouldn't Ferrania be able to do the same for the colour/cine markets ?
When they have film for sale this should get a bit easier to raise funds for going forward. Go Ferrania!
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