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Cairo Montenotte, July 2023
Dear backers,
We want to express our heartfelt gratitude for believing in Film Ferrania from the very beginning. Despite our investments in research and development, we regret to inform you that the original goal of the crowdfunding campaign has not been achieved. Currently, the products we have successfully developed and brought to market only include black and white films in both 35mm and 120 formats.
Since we are committed to showing our appreciation to those who supported the project to the best of our abilities, we plan to send a series of newsletters to the contacts registered at the time of contribution on Kickstarter in the coming weeks. This will provide an opportunity for those interested to purchase the available products on our website at a discounted price.
Thank you once again for your support.
The Film Ferrania Team
Yes, I backed their Kickstarter. They did offer a deal to replace the original reward of rolls of the new slide film with rolls of P30. I opted instead to buy 5 rolls of P30 Alpha, reasoning that they could benefit from all the cash they could get. I used 4 rolls and gave one away; I did do a comparison between P30 and FP4, reported on in this thread. I thought my P30 Alpha was rather too contrasty and a bit orthochromatic (see the red balloons in the referenced thread), and didn't buy any more, although I've lately heard they've increased the "spectral sensitivity", maybe making it more panchromatic, possibly when ORTO was introduced.Whatever happened to the Film Ferrania Kickstarter campaign?
I have vague recollections of them offering some of their P30 film stock to those that didn’t want to wait but don’t think I’ve heard anything more since.
I seem to remember @ChrisR backed it, anyone else?
Analogue Wonderland has Ferrania film now. Probably no more expensive than backers price with the daft postage.
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The original Kickstarter was for a colour slide film though, wasn't it? The B&W stocks were released as interim products while they worked out the kinks for the E6 film (which they still haven't done).
Three B&W films is better than no films though, I suppose.
Yes, in retrospect going straight for a slide film was a pretty big ask. ISTR that depended on some of the equipment they were expecting to inherit, not all of which materialised, one way or another. It would certainly be excellent for the film community if they did finally managed to deliver a slide film, but since I'm 95% a black and white togger these days, I'm not too worried!The original Kickstarter was for a colour slide film though, wasn't it? The B&W stocks were released as interim products while they worked out the kinks for the E6 film (which they still haven't done).
Three B&W films is better than no films though, I suppose.
Some folk on the internets have been very angry at the non-delivery of the original rewards, but I suspect these think of a KS as a purchase rather than backing a development (no pun intended). There was a time when FF suggested they would offer discounts on P30 purchases, and then this didn't happen, which was a bit disappointing. However, I reckon my KS backing was helpful in getting a new film maker on the map and I'm happy with that.