The thing is, Ferrania currently makes some acceptable quality C-41 still films. They are more grainy and less saturated than the similar Kodak consumer film equivalents, but they are entirely acceptable.
If that film were to be slit down and perforated with cine-grade accuracy (rather than the more sloppy perforation and slitting that are acceptable for still film), I think it would have a small but dedicated market as it is. It would be fine in a lot of cameras. I'm surprised that they are going for the reversal market but I think their push is probably to get a still reversal film out there and while they have the line running anyway to slit some motion picture film out of the deal. The question is basically how small a line they have and how small a quantity can they make in a run vs. how large a quantity can they sell. The fact that they're selling the same stock into both still and motion picture markets means they can sell more of one stock and concentrate on getting that right. I'm a little surprised though that, if they can slit motion picture film, that they don't just take their existing C-41 stock and sell some of that as a motion picture stock. --scott _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
