It seems that after years of low sales, there are suddenly several options for tungsten films. CineStill, most notably. And Lomo recently released one as well, I believe.
Hi Dave!
I'm extremely happy with the whole Ferrania project and now even more than you are here, alive and kicking, on APUG.
I would like to say a lot of things but don't know where to start. The videos put on the Ferrania web page are great, the last "grazie mille" video almost brings tears out of my eye.
Ok, i guess i'll make one request. My request is: TUNGSTEN BALANCED E-6 film please!!
Note that CineStill is not reversal film but negative film. Scotch (3M, Ferrania) used to make a 640T reversal film (ISO 640, tungsten) that, while grainy, it was sharp, with good colors, and very fast. Artists loved it. Somebody mentioned that you can use a normal daylight-balanced film and then use filtration, but as far as i know, this doesn't give as good results as using tungsten film. While using tungsten film in daylight using a correction filter does give excellent results. This is the reason most cine color films are tungsten balanced. Also, you lose two stops when filtering a daylight-balanced film. This was explicetly mentioned on a review of ScotchChrome 640T made by Popular Photography (if i recall correctly). They compared Scotch 640T to Ektachrome 160T and the Scotch product was superior for practical low-light purposes -if you don't mind the grain, of course.
So this means the 640T film was extremely fast. And it pushed correctly to ISO 1250. To be able to get tungsten-balanced ISO 1250 with a daylight-balanced film, you would need an ISO 5000 daylight-balanced film (!!) to compensate with the 2 stop loss of the blue filter...
Such a film, in 120 format size, would open a lot of possibilities for us medium format shooters. In 6x6 or 6x7 format the grain of the 640T would not be a problem at all. Even a pushable 320T film would be extremely useful, like the late Ektachrome 320T. Again, tell your engineers (Corrado) not to worry too much about grain. Grain used to be undesirable in film, but now in the digital era i think people have come to appreciate more the look of grainy-but-sharp film.
If Ferrania are to be the "color ilford", then a pushable 320T film could be the "color HP5+", that is, an extremely film that can be pushed and used in all kinds of situations; a bit grainy but very sharp, just like HP5+ is. Just make sure you bring your 85B filter!
In any case, warm welcome and greetings to Danilo, Corrado, Renzo, Daniele, Ezio, Marco S, Marco P, Nicola, and Dave Bias aka "The Mystery American" !!
All your points are valid except it is very rare for tungsten lighting to be used here.
All your points are valid except it is very rare for tungsten lighting to be used here.
It is even difficult getting tungsten bulbs for an enlarger, which takes standard 60w screw, Pearl or plain.
They used to be in corner shop at end of street.
They used to be in corner shop at end of street.
I was wondering about papers too, although i dont currently use them myself, i would imagine that a separate coating facility would be required for paper would it not? From what i understand it cant be coated on the same machinery as the film.
How long did Ferrania make papers up to for interest?
FYI Ilford/Harman coat film and paper on the same machine, but not at the same time
OK, thats interesting, i was pretty sure i read a post from Photo Engineer that said that coating the paper was more complex than film, as it made alot of paper dust which needed serious filtration etc, so it was all kept separate from the film coating facility.
I thought pretty much all the documentary work had or was moving over to using LED continuous lighting?
Anyone here still using Tungsten lights?
- Are you planning on producing 24 or even (it would be incredible) 12 exposures 135 rolls ? Because it is now pretty difficult to find 24 exposures rolls and almost impossible to find 12 exp, and it is really difficult for me to shoot 36 photos with the same film, and with a unique sensibility.
- The most important thing : is the first batch packaging is going to be the one for normal films ? It's not that I don't find it good, but I'm just not a huge fan of the 1960s design, but I do prefer the packagings from the 80s and the 90s or even the ones with color stripes on it <3. For example, I'm a big fan of "labeauratoire", you can see some of his packagings on his blog http://labeauratoire.wordpress.com/ since his shop is currently closed. I would have an orgasm if there you collaborated with this guy !
This is explained a bit more thoroughly in other answers. The short answer is that we hope to be able to offer short-runs and special orders in a variety of formats, but not until capacity (and coating head size) permits.
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