Film Ferrania - Developments from October 2023 onward

koraks · Oct 9, 2023

This is a continuation of the preceding thread, which can still be referenced here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...o-be-in-continuous-production-by-fall.161079/

Please limit complaints about the kickstarter etc. to recent developments after 1 Oct 2023. Worries, complaints and gossip preceding that date is likely already addressed in the thread above and there's no need to go over it again.

mshchem · Oct 9, 2023

I'm looking forward to the P33 (potential) offering.

bardamu · Oct 19, 2023

P33 (iso 160) is going to be available by Jan '24 at my local shop in Milan, Italy both in 35 and 120 format.

Andrew O'Neill · Oct 19, 2023

That's great news, bardamu! Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on some P33, too. I'm very much hooked on P30 in 120.

mshchem · Oct 19, 2023

Interesting!!

cmacd123 · Oct 23, 2023

wonderful. when I was first starting out taking pictures in the early 1960s, I often got rolls of 3M Dynapan. (if you sent out a roll of B&W to "Mercury Photo Service" you got a free roll of Dynapan when you picked up your prints..) at the time It was assumed to be Ferrania P33. the camera store did have a couple of rolls of P33 in stock, which I used to try my First 35mm Camera, only to find the camera had a light leak.

160 was the rating of P33 back in the day so it is consistent. Nostalgia if nothing else.

Nzoomed · Oct 31, 2023

The main thing is that Ferrania are producing film and presumably able to sell it for a profit.
Im sure they will get there with colour and it appears they are working on this behind the scenes.
Not going to complain though, im patiently waiting.

Andrew O'Neill · Nov 7, 2023

One of my subscribers sent me this link... http://www.puntofoto.it/news.asp
It's in Italian, but you can click on the English translation tab that pops up...

koraks · Nov 7, 2023

Cool, a Ferrania museum + factory tour, with a complimentary roll of film to boot!

Daniela · Nov 7, 2023

Andrew O'Neill said:
One of my subscribers sent me this link... http://www.puntofoto.it/news.asp
It's in Italian, but you can click on the English translation tab that pops up...

Very cool!

Andrew O'Neill · Nov 7, 2023

If I were retired, I'd love to attend!

Prest_400 · Nov 9, 2023

Instagram post about their tour, including previews of the new P33 film. There was a reference to P36 that has been edited out now.

Positive that they are progressing!

Agulliver · Nov 9, 2023

I've seen references to P33 and P36 elsewhere but perhaps they originally got their info from the now edited Instagram post.

TheGreatGasMaskMan · Nov 10, 2023

More Ferrania BW? I'm in. though it's probably going to be a while before we see color films. Just hoping they'll do Cinefilm sometime soon.

Agulliver · Nov 11, 2023

TheGreatGasMaskMan said:
More Ferrania BW? I'm in. though it's probably going to be a while before we see color films. Just hoping they'll do Cinefilm sometime soon.

I'd love to see P30 in 8mm format. Though I'm not holding my breath. There's more market in 135 and 120.

cmacd123 · Nov 18, 2023

well, I checked and the film ferrnaia com site has P30 in 120 back in stock. Comes up at 19.00 Canadian a roll. (yikes) and the postage by DHL is 50 bucks. you do get a "discount" if you put more than 5 rolls in your cart, of the three types that are available.

Andrew O'Neill · Nov 18, 2023

cmacd123 said:
well, I checked and the film ferrnaia com site has P30 in 120 back in stock. Comes up at 19.00 Canadian a roll. (yikes) and the postage by DHL is 50 bucks. you do get a "discount" if you put more than 5 rolls in your cart, of the three types that are available.

I'll wait until FPP gets more in stock. I'm NOT paying DHL 50 loonies! Time for Ferrania to ramp up production!

Revenant · Nov 18, 2023

Now that it looks likely that P33 and P36 are going to be revived, does anyone have examples of pictures taken with these stocks?

I found this, but the examples are from an expired roll.

Also this.

cmacd123 · Nov 20, 2023

JUst got an e-mail that they are offering a discount this week on P30 135-36. My timing is terrible.

cmacd123 · Nov 22, 2023

My little 10 roll envelope from Italy arrived. as I sort of expected DHL charged me an additional 20 Bucks Canadian to do the import paperwork. the package was a half Kilo, so the shipping alone cost the same per gram as the finest Imported Japanese roast.

I did look at the bar code from two of the 35mm rolls (it was -1C here today so I will wait till tomorrow for the film to warm up) one was in the range of 0000A2xx and the othere was in the range 00009xxx but scanning them both returned that the film was ORTO (even the one from the P30) with a roll number of 0000 and a manufactured date in 1980. So they have not been updating their database.

the box from the 120 was embossed with 12 2026 which I guess represents an expiry date.

It will be a while before I try to order direct unless they get a MUCH better method that Shipping DHL.

moviemaniac · Nov 24, 2023

Yeah, I am not happy about their shipping either. Got a package in a very thin, unpadded DHL document envelope with every single carton mangled, torn and squashed, not a pretty sight. And that was on a quick trip from Italy to Austria... 🫣

cmacd123 · Nov 24, 2023

moviemaniac said:
Yeah, I am not happy about their shipping either. Got a package in a very thin, unpadded DHL document envelope with every single carton mangled, torn and squashed, not a pretty sight. And that was on a quick trip from Italy to Austria... 🫣

same here, I figured that they would have had to charge more to send it in a box. the Italian Post office has a long reputation of unreliability, so I can understand why they want to use a better shipper, and it seems that DHL has a dominant share in europe.

moviemaniac · Dec 11, 2023

cmacd123 said:
same here, I figured that they would have had to charge more to send it in a box. the Italian Post office has a long reputation of unreliability, so I can understand why they want to use a better shipper, and it seems that DHL has a dominant share in europe.

They charged plenty enough for shipping to send it in a proper box with proper packaging with any of the 4 or so other European carriers ...

Revenant · Dec 12, 2023

P30 is now available on the official website in 30m bulk rolls for €99, which by my calculation works out at around €5.50 per 36 exposure roll. Not bad at all.

Ferrania P30 35mm x 30mt Bulk Film - 80 ISO

P30 is is a newly manufactured film engineered with modernized versions of original chemicals, based on the historic cinema formula of the mid-20th century. It features a high silver content, providing high-contrast negatives with almost no visible grain. Shadows are deep and rich, while...

www.filmferrania.com

cmacd123 · Dec 12, 2023

wonder why they selected 98.4 feet, rather than the typical 30.5 meters or 100 ft Still this is great to see. Will proably wait until they have a north american distribution option. Still felling Badly Burned by my experience with the Customs clearance fee ripoff from DHL. (when the carier wants you to pay them almost as much as the Government is getting - just for the arduous task ofdoing routine paperwork - it gets old fast)

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