Nova Film

[Stephen Frizza]

Who makes nova black and white film? and who here has shot on it?

 

[Robert Hall]

I've never heard of it, Stephen. Where have you found it?

 

[PHOTOTONE]

It most certainly is from one of the existing factories. Since you are in Austrailia, it quite possibly could be private labeled from Era or Lucky in China.

 

[Ektagraphic]

Is there anywhere in the us that sells lucky film? I am not a made in china person at all, but I would like to try a roll for kicks. Their website says they even have a transparency film. That I would really like to see.

 

[Tim Gray]

I bought some Lucky film the other year on ebay.

Search for 'Lucky SHD' or 'Lucky 100'. I think the seller was cowy07.

 

[Jeff L]

Nova.... is this the stuff?? eBay auction #230405766603 If so, it says packaged in India.

 

[railwayman3]

There's a small photo manufacturing company under the Nova name in India, see:

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No website shown, but an email contact.

 

[Chazzy]

I wasn't aware that any coating was going on in India; but then, there are lots of things that I don't know about.

 

[tjaded]

Re-packaged Ilford would be my guess...but a guess is all it would be.

 

[Stephen Frizza]

The film was indeed from india and while i only processed one roll of it, the results i saw make me think this emulsion is pretty rough. I don't mean that in a negative way, the grain was large the tonal range wasn't gentle and the base of the film looked grey. Ide love to see more results from this material.

 

[debanddg]

At 50 US cents / 36 exposure roll, it's hard to beat Nova aka Sterling from value for money perspective but you should be prepared for surprises. It's basically some old emulsion [rumored to have been sourced from somewhere within the erstwhile Iron Curtain countries] and manufactured without any meaningful quality control. I have even noticed variations within the same roll! However, as stated above, hard to beat it at its price point - some of my shots here are with Nova / Sterling.