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How what goes?
Whether Film Ferrania should flourish or flounder.
How what goes?
How what goes?
Whether Film Ferrania should flourish or flounder.
h'mm the problem is:- you don't know what you are getting....some slide film? Is there a great demand for slide film? Will it be a cheap alternative to the brands we can get now? Then Ferrania would probably add neg film, well I've already shown shots of their latest before being discontinued, so if they restart neg film would it be old or new emulsion and can it compete with Kodak and Fuji or even Agfa Vista for price and quality.
Maybe Kodachrome restarting would have been a good idea as you know what you would be getting.
And a last thought:- if Ferrania is a great success it would hit the sales of Kodak and Fuji and they would drop more lines as there are only so many film users in the world pot.
Well as a thread gets older I forget what's said before
Well hands up how many of us used Ferrania film say 5 years ago and why did you use it.....and would think Italians used it more than say Americans or British,, so new Ferrania has to be very good film and a decent price for us to switch.
Well as a thread gets older I forget what's said before
Well hands up how many of us used Ferrania film say 5 years ago and why did you use it.....and would think Italians used it more than say Americans or British,, so new Ferrania has to be very good film and a decent price for us to switch.
As we've again already discussed, what does your use of Ferrania colour negative film five years ago have to do with the use of an upcoming slide film from Film Ferrania, which is an entirely new company?
100 ISO slide film isn't particularly useful to me personally either, but that doesn't mean others won't find it useful, especially if Fuji drops any more films from its existing transparency range.
Well I mentioned "say 5 years ago" as it seems I'm the only one who has bought Ferrania film , so where's all the posts saying "how great scotch chrome was and how they miss it". Mention some B\W, Kodachrome\neg films stopped and you get quite a few posts with sad smilies. So my point still stands rephrased:- did anyone here miss USING Ferrania when they stopped producing film.
I think you're missing the point, Brian. This isn't about the resurrection of a classic emulsion, this is about a team of people willing to take a chance on launching a new range of film in an environment where most manufacturers are either treading water or removing film from their stock lists. Yes, it's been done through a KickStarter campaign so it's not as though there's a massive industry tooling up but it shows how many people around the world are still invested in film and want to see this succeed.
Times have changed, many people are no longer looking for the ultimate in clarity or detail, they may have a romantic view of photography, they're looking for retro, overblown colours and interesting effects in low light, something different to digital that captures what photography means to them. Ok, Ferrania might not have produced exceptional quality film and few people bought large stocks of Scotch Chrome because it wasn't anything special but that was then and this is now. The Ferrania name conjures up the image of Italy captured in Technicolor movies; huge blocks of bright, glowing colour bleeding into each other, of motion blur capturing the spirit and the feel of the moment, grainy half-light images of intrigue and mystery, not merely recording your attendance at a place and time as anyone with a mobile phone can do.
If you can't appreciate that then I think you need to accept that you're probably not in the target market.
Well said..I promote you to sales manager of the new company.
If we are going down memory lane, what the name "Ferrania" conjures up for me are memories of my first serious use of colour film, in the form of CR50. I bought bulk loads and home processed it. Actually, university processed it, since I was a student at the time. I could afford colour doing it this way; not otherwise. I've had a soft spot for the name ever since.
That's a choice of 1 36 exposure Kodachrome or 1.3 kilos of fillet steak. I didn't buy Kodachrome...
This is one of the reasons some people only used one roll of film per year. I'm pretty sure Kodachrome was about £6:50 in 1978 and I probably earned about £30 before tax so a roll took about half my disposable income after I'd paid my tax and rent.Gulp, that works out at over £30 a roll of Kodachrome today, given top quality fillet prices. I don't think I'd buy more than a token roll at those prices... unless it was a Kickstarter to revive it, of course!
I think he still is, 2 houses, lots of cameras and always mooching around the classifiedsyou must have been much richer Chris
I think he still is, 2 houses, lots of cameras and always mooching around the classifieds
Says the f&c hoover. Don't think we didn't notice how quick that Mamyia sold
you must have been much richer Chris