Positive news from Film Ferrania

[Skiff]

Film Ferrania is making progress:

http://www.filmferrania.it/faq/

http://www.filmferrania.it/news/

The future of film manufacturing probably will be in Europe:
- Agfa-Gevaert, Belgium
- Ilford Photo, England
- Foma, Czech Republic
- Adox, Germany
- Inoviscoat, Germany
- FilmoTec, Germany
- Impossible Project (Austria, Germany, Netherlands)
- Film Ferrania, Italy

Two of them are already producing colour film (Agfa and Inoviscoat / Impossible).
And the third is working on it (Film Ferrania).

 

[michal@hanu.la]

Pun intended?

 

[Skiff]

Pun intended?

No.
I've just forgotten to mention Fujifilm in Japan.
I think they will stay. Instax has 20 % increasing sales p.a.

But with so much companies in Europe and only one in Japan, I think it is not exaggerated to say the future lies in Europe.

Well Kodak, they are so dependant on the movie film industry. I think their future is the most uncertain.
And they are perhaps also a victim of the American "only big is beautiful" mentality.
May be they are too big and not flexible enough to survive.
Let's hope they are flexible enough.

 

[bluesun267]

I've thought long and hard about Kodak, and to a lesser extent, Fuji, and why they continue to "anti-market" film (ie, their 20-year "two-pronged" attack, consisting of eliminating products and raising prices). The only conclusion I can come to is it's a matter of will. That's really what any human endeavor comes down to in the end, and the beginning. Without will, there's no way. (BTW, I don't see either of them capable of getting the will. If they were, we would already have seen some signs.) Sorry to be a downer, but that should be good news for the above parties.

 

[Ansel]

Certainly is a great time to shoot film!

 

[Lauffray]

Film is dying, the end is nigh ! Wait, what ? 😀

Seriously, this is good news, very welcome

 

[VertovSvilova]

fwiw, I don't think Agfa makes their consumer color negative film (other than an aerial film that is being repackaged and relabeled by Maco.) The last Agfa labeled film I had was made in Japan by Fuji (it appears to be Fujicolor looking at the film edge ID markings.) Also I'm pretty sure the only film that they still make is aerial film, and not film destined as consumer film.

"While Agfa has retired from the photography branch, and the Agfaphoto brand was sold to a reseller named Lupus Imaging , the surviving Belgian industrial branch of Agfa continues to produce, among other things, w/b, colour negative and colour reversal materials for aerial photography. Some of these are cut to the usual 135 and 120 formats by Maco and distributed under the brand name Rollei. Specifically, these re-branded Agfa materials include Rollei Retro 80S, 200S and 400S, Digibase CN200 and CR200."

 

[Skiff]

Well, fact is that Agfa is one of the biggest producers of film materials worldwide. E.G. they are producing about 1 million m² of PCB film p.a..
And they are producing micro film, cine print film, copy film, aerial and surveillance film in both colour and BW.
And lots of these films can be used by us photographers, as other companies like Maco / Rollei-Film, Adox, Lomography are offering these films in the usual still photography formats.

By the way, further positive news from Film Ferrania, a survey:
https://filmferrania.squarespace.com/survey/

 

[shadowfox]

Done the survey, thanks for the heads up.

 

[Sumolux]

And this..

And this..

For those who might not have scrolled down the page:

http://www.filmferrania.com/?utm_so...il&utm_term=0_d813cccf76-27f454d81d-108586989

 

[Keith]

This bunch look like they need to get a little more sleep! 😛

 

[mwoenv]

Thanks for the link. I took the poll.

It will be good to have a small company producing film and organized to be satisfied with the money they can make so they stay in business. The giants (Kodak, Fuji) need to get to some small-company size as a division or selling their business to others so that the small film niche can be served with good products. The small film market cannot support multinational firm sales and revenue levels.

 

[Elektrojänis]

This bunch look like they need to get a little more sleep! 😛

Hoperfully they've just been busy with the start of the film production.

 

[jsrockit]

I've thought long and hard about Kodak, and to a lesser extent, Fuji, and why they continue to "anti-market" film (ie, their 20-year "two-pronged" attack, consisting of eliminating products and raising prices).

Anti-market or just a dying market for the product?

 

[Doug]

There is a current thread about Ferrania's Kickstarter attempt to restart, here:
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=144977