After Nearly 50 Years, Ilford Are Making 35mm Cassettes Again

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

Good news, I believe, the company is investing in film infrastructure.
Press release here.
Regards
Brett

 

[John Lawrence]

Very good news.

John

 

[Michalm]

Excellent we will soon see Nikon manufacturing Fm3a again.

 

[newsgrunt]

If they bring back the brass looking capped cassettes that were a dream for bulk loading, that's a good thing.

 

[Timmyjoe]

I'm a little confused. What is a 35 mm cassette? Are we talking about something similar to the old Kodak Snap-Caps? Reload-able film cartridges?

Best,
-Tim

 

[Sid836]

That's what I love with Ilford. It invests on film, and makes profit out of it. Kodak had lost its way when it had started investing more on plain profit and that has been its doom.

 

[iuseruby]

I'm a little confused. What is a 35 mm cassette? Are we talking about something similar to the old Kodak Snap-Caps? Reload-able film cartridges?

Best,
-Tim

I don't think that it's about the re-loadable cassettes. Looks like that they're using the third party supplier for the film cassettes and now they're going to invest to the own production.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I'm a little confused. What is a 35 mm cassette? Are we talking about something similar to the old Kodak Snap-Caps? Reload-able film cartridges?

Best,
-Tim

Dear Tim,

It's the thing the film comes in, the cassette or cartridge. Until recently they had been buying them in.

Cheers,

R.

 

[shadowfox]

Excellent news!!
I wish we have a group of dedicated investors like Harman here in the US to save Kodak film from ... well, Kodak.

 

[semilog]

If they bring back the brass looking capped cassettes that were a dream for bulk loading, that's a good thing.

I loved those things.

 

[jschrader]

for self-loading?

for self-loading?

to me that sounds like they want to be independent from external suppliers for the 35 mm films they make. Which is good of course.

But, how do you get them for loading your own (30.5 m) bulk films?

 

[maggieo]

If they bring back the brass looking capped cassettes that were a dream for bulk loading, that's a good thing.

They were half the reason I switched to HP5 and ditched Tri-X back in the 80's. That, and I genuinely liked HP5's tonality better. It made my work stand out a bit from everyone else in art school, who all used Tri-X.

 

[zuiko85]

Would love to see quality cassettes for bulk loading. Ilford sells 100 ft. bulk film it would be nice if they also had empty cassettes for film that could be reloaded many times. As long as you take care to keep the felts clean.

 

[newsgrunt]

I loved those things.

somewhere in the cave I have a 500 sheet 8x10 paper box full of them 😉 but I'm shooting Arista Premium so haven't bulked in some time.

Maybe when they bring back Agfa APX 100 lol

 

[Calzone]

They were half the reason I switched to HP5 and ditched Tri-X back in the 80's. That, and I genuinely liked HP5's tonality better. It made my work stand out a bit from everyone else in art school, who all used Tri-X.

Plus one except I started art school in the 70's. I'd bulk load again if the cassettes are the same style. So easy to open. Squeeze and a thumbnail is all that is required.

Cal

 

[mike rosenlof]

Quoting from the press release web page:

"HARMAN Managing Director, Peter Elton says, “This is just another example of our ongoing commitment to traditional monochrome photography."

And the photo of Mr. Elton is in color! (and a 2704x4064 jpg reduced to a small headshot on the page, probably displayed at about 270x406 pixels) Grrrr.

OK, I'm being a bit snarky. I'm a happy customer of Harman/Ilford products, Mostly in larger formats, but any corporate investment in film product makes me smile.

 

[Calzone]

to me that sounds like they want to be independent from external suppliers for the 35 mm films they make. Which is good of course.

But, how do you get them for loading your own (30.5 m) bulk films?

You just accumulate them over time by saving them instead of throwing them away.

Cal

 

[Nokton48]

Nice! I'd buy some of their prepackaged film to get some of those.

They always made the best film cartridges in my opinion. Hope these are like the old ones.

 

[Mark Wood]

If they bring back the brass looking capped cassettes that were a dream for bulk loading, that's a good thing.

And 935 refills to go with them! (Anyone remember those?)

 

[Vics]

Great news! Sounds as if Harmon is (are) really dedicated to keeping us shooting film well into the future!