Something i noticed when going into the store is that none of my kickstarter credit is showing when i go to make a purchase
Yes, I believe that the credits offered in lieu of the colour film they weren't able to produce had a time limit.
I thought it was a year after you received the credit... I could be mistaken.
Film Ferrania did a Kickstarter to take over a small part of what had been the research lab building and some other machinery from the remains of what had been Ferrania, 3M/Ferrania, Imation, and a few other names that we used by the firm. The kickstarter offered a reward of Newly made colour slide film at a time when Kodak had just discontinued Ektachrome.I know nothing about them, only what i read here.
And that makes me wonder how they stay in business.......
I know nothing about them, only what i read here.
And that makes me wonder how they stay in business.......
I thought I had been keeping up to date with all their emails, but then they just stopped, last one i had was the instructions on redeeming the credit, which I went through, nothing was said about any expiry date.I recall them communicating it several times, and I wasn't even directly interested as I never had any credits.
And the colour film, if it ever happens, was always going to be years away. They also made that clear and advised cashing in the credits on P30.
Like i say..... makes me wonder how they stay afloatFilm Ferrania did a Kickstarter to take over a small part of what had been the research lab building and some other machinery from the remains of what had been Ferrania, 3M/Ferrania, Imation, and a few other names that we used by the firm. The kickstarter offered a reward of Newly made colour slide film at a time when Kodak had just discontinued Ektachrome.
by the time the dust settled, the materials that they were going to use to make that film had gone Bad, and they backed up to attempting to make some of the older Ferrania B&W films, that 3M had discountinued after 3M bought Ferrania back in 1964. the sage included finding Asbestos in the building, redevelopment of the rest of the site ctting off Power and water, COVID and many other challenges.
Many of the folks who contributed to the kickstarter were upset as they thought that their contribution was buying the Unable to produce colour film. the Kickstarter was instead to raise enough to save the equipment from being sold for Scrap.
the company has released Very small quanities of three Different Black and white films, But since they are using the equipment from the research lab they have only made VERY small Quanities.
Many of us wait to see what they manage, Just because ferrania has made a Number of special films over the years, and supposedly they have all the recipes. Also as Imation, (or was it one of the later names) they were the last place that made 126 film.
since Kodak is back to making Ektachrome at least in 16mm and 35mm, the ferrania slide film is proably on hold, unless they start making some of the High speed C41 and E6 film that 3M used to churn out for private label cutomers like K-mart and Sears.
They were churning out many millions of rolls of C41 35mm and 120 films every year and well as 127, 126, 110 and at least one E6 film. None of which was the best in the world but it was all decent quality stuff, used by zillions of amateurs for decades. It only disappeared in 2009 when the last Ferrania Solaris films exited the original factory.
From that once huge factory, the current Film Ferrania is in the LRF research building and the endeavour to use some of the old coating and finishing machines and a handful of old staff to reintroduce former Ferrania films was hampered by several incidents not of their making. Then you had the people who didn't understand what the Kickstarter was about complaining that they didn't get the film they thought they ordered.
I don't know what quantities of P30, P33 and ORtho have been released into the wild. I have several rolls of P30 and I like it when I want relatively high contrast negatives shot in bright light. Where they go from here though is uncertain. It looks like all the founders have left, with the introduction of the "investor". One story is that it was discovered that the founders were stealing funds. Another is that they simply fell out with the investor. Having another viable film manufacturer is important, and the films they've released so far are genuinely not like others so I hope they are able to find a way forward. But it's not exactly looking rosy.
They stay in business because their films are excellent.
Purtroppo l'azienda sotto la nuova guida non ottiene i risultati sperati e dopo un 2024 di profonda crisi Silvio Pignone è costretto a lasciare sia la guida dell'azienda che il suo pacchetto azionario di maggioranza che passa in mano inglese.
Unfortunately, under its new leadership, the company is not achieving the expected results, and after a deeply challenging 2024, Silvio Pignone is forced to step down from both the company's leadership and his majority shareholding, which is transferred to English hands.
P30 is simply not an everyday film. Do not make the mistake of confusing that with it not being a good quality film.
I await more news and from more sources regarding a change of ownership. IT's not exactly looking great. I don't know if Harman would be interested, does the small Film Ferrania operation have anything they'd want? Harman are investing £10 million in their own production capacity and already have vastly more capacity than Film Ferrania.
Has anyone got a screenshot on this update, because I never read anything about this in their kickstarter emails and I thought I had been keeping up with this very well, from memory most of their communication stopped abruptly, perhaps I got removed from their mailing list for some reason?I felt they communicated the time limit on the credits very clearly across multiple social media sites and on their website....and I wasn't even following it that closely because I never had any credits to redeem - I backed them only sufficiently to receive a postcard. It seemed abundantly clear to me that there was a defined window of a year where backers could use credits to purchase B&W film in lieu of the colour film they'd been unable to coat due to all the stuff beyond their control. I mean, when the Italian government decides to slice a campus in two and shut off gas and water supplies....a photochemical company is kinda screwed...
Like i say..... makes me wonder how they stay afloat
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