Film Ferrania - Developments from October 2023 onward

[cmacd123]

if you set You tube to Closed captions, and then to auto translate in english, it is fairly easy to follow along as the Audio provides the clues to what they are trying to empasise.

 

[Corn_Zhou]

Update: Samples for Ferrania P33,shot at 100 developed in GSD10 1+30, 30mins semi-stand. The results might be scewed because I uesd GSD10 for a semi-stand development and the high values are crompressed a lot.
Note the casette was DX coded for ISO1000, not sure if this is specific to this batch or an error in the whole production.
Ferrania P33-Nikon F80s-1-GSD10-21 by Kelvin Zhou, 於 Flickr
Ferrania P33-Nikon F80s-1-GSD10-27 by Kelvin Zhou, 於 Flickr
Ferrania P33-Nikon F80s-1-GSD10-10 by Kelvin Zhou, 於 Flickr
The negative looks like this:

 

[Revenant]

Thanks, these are excellent. Roll on P36 hopefully this year!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Hopefully I can get my hands on some P33...

 

[kitspics]

Looks like whoever printed it got the speed row backwards, if you read it from right to left it properly encodes 160. Did this roll come with the who am I serial number? I've always found their production numbers interesting

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Is P33 even available?

 

[Corn_Zhou]

Is P33 even available?

Not yet.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thank you.

 

[paddycook]

Not yet.

Do we know when it will be?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

"Something hot is about to be dropped" as so my email from them, said... Colour?

 

[brbo]

If this is yet another new colour film... I'm telling you... I can't handle any more of them. Yeah, right! Bring it on Ferrania!!!

Having way too much fun already with LomoChrome '92, Phoenix, Color Mission (and Color Mission Helios in the pipeline)... Beginning to I think that Fuji's total "commitment" to film and Kodak's "we are raising our prices to invest in new converting capabilities" BS were a blessing that opened the door for other manufacturers.


Although, I think this in "only" about the official launch of the P33.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Colour would be a hot item. We know that they have been working on P33... maybe that's what their email was about and it's going to be for sale for us mere mortals.

 

[abruzzi]

FYI, I saw Orto 120 for sale on the Film Ferrania store. I don't remember that being available before. I don't see it at my usual USA retailers.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Screen shot a still from their promo video, just as the photographer dropped the roll from bottom of camera. Looks like P33 to me...

 

[Nzoomed]

Just got an email from film ferrania saying something "hot" is about to be dropped.
Fingers crossed its colour film!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Just got an email from film ferrania saying something "hot" is about to be dropped.
Fingers crossed its colour film!

Look at post #64...

 

[Nzoomed]

Look at post #64...

Yeah I just saw that after I posted.
I'm still got my fingers crossed its color.
I dont think there is anything much hotter about getting another b&w film.
Perhaps they will be launching more than one film?
Either way, we know they are still working on color development and the good news is that they have more than one kind of film on the market and in different formats too.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

They are also working on another P-something B/W film. They must be close to putting out colour.

 

[Nzoomed]

They are also working on another P-something B/W film. They must be close to putting out colour.

They were working on all the sensitizers last time I heard from the updates, but the rest of the work was being able to get all the extra layers coated correctly, black and white films were easier to roll out and less complex while they were getting the coaters bugs all sorted.

 

[Agulliver]

I don't get emails from them but I'd expect P33 and probably P36 before we get colour.

But then Harman did recently surprise us with Phoenix and there was that social media post a while back from a photographer which hinted that he'd been given some experimental Film Ferrania colour film.

It's a long shot but if they can produce Ferrania Solaris 200 again, I am in.

 

[Nzoomed]

I don't get emails from them but I'd expect P33 and probably P36 before we get colour.

But then Harman did recently surprise us with Phoenix and there was that social media post a while back from a photographer which hinted that he'd been given some experimental Film Ferrania colour film.

It's a long shot but if they can produce Ferrania Solaris 200 again, I am in.

Wow, never heard about that post before. Wonder if it was all talk or they actually had their hands on something? I do know that they are slowly working on colour if nothing else, and I think it will be an E6 film, iirc they said its actually easier to produce than a C41 film.

 

[Ernst-Jan]

Something hot, like 27°? Also ISO 400 film?

 

[Agulliver]

Wow, never heard about that post before. Wonder if it was all talk or they actually had their hands on something? I do know that they are slowly working on colour if nothing else, and I think it will be an E6 film, iirc they said its actually easier to produce than a C41 film.

It was an instagram post, I think from Robbie Mcintish who is a street photographer based in Naples. He posted quite a while ago. From what I remember he said he was shooting some film for Film Ferrania, and *one* of the 35mm cassettes had "colour" hand written on it.

Nothing else has been seen since, so we don't know if it was an experimental Ferrania colour film or not. Last year Film Ferrania's own Instagram account posted a series of B&W photos that Robbie Mcintosh shot on P30.

Regarding 400ISO, if they are doing P36 which *has* been mentioned by several sources, that would be ISO 320 B&W panchromatic film

 

[kitspics]

As I understand the economics, they've really prioritized being a functional and sustainable business over putting out color film asap which says to me they're shooting for p30 in 160 and 320 before anything with color. Especially considering hype around color has burned them in the past...

 

[fs999]

Something hot, like 27°? Also ISO 400 film?

24° is not bad too (200).