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1. Extremely hard work for about 15 years for the film revival. I have sacrificed a high five-digit Euro amount of my own money in supporting several initiatives which support traditional film photography.
2. I am running an independent non-profit scientific photography test lab in which I am testing films, photopapers, photo chemistry, lenses, sensors. My film test archive alone has more than 12,000 different test shots. Film manufacturers have told me that they think that is probably the biggest privately held film test archive. Some manufacturers want critical double-checks of their new materials. They know I am "brutally" in finding product flaws
3. I am author of the German film photography print magazine "PhotoKlassik". I have published reports of three of my five film factory visits in this magazine. And the reports about the 4. and 5. visit are planned for this year.
4. My main business (have my own little company) is technologic and economic research. I have designed economic methods for analysing the photo market. My forecasts based on these economic models have been very precise so far. For example I have forecasted the film revival which started in 2016 already ten years before in 2006, with the exact time point.
That is correct. AFAIK only a handful of persons globally have seen five different film factories from the inside.
Maybe in the future official factory visits will be an option again. I can imagine that mayby Harman will that offer again, or ADOX, or Film Ferrania. The last two probably in the long run, but not in the short run.
Best regards,
Henning