There is no C-41 Ferrania stocks being manufactured, hasn't been for some years. Ferrania closed their film factory 2006. This Ferrania is a new company. They are starting everything "from scratch" (they do have the recipes, but those have to be modified to replace some chemicals that aren't available anymore due to environmental regulations).
When starting from scratch E-6 is a better choice than C-41 because there is only one company producing E-6 films left (Fuji) and that same stock can be sold for both still and motion picture use. There is also a working existing infrastructure to process those films already in place. For C-41 the problem would be that motion picture film could only be home processed. -Heikki On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:12:51 -0400 Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Heikki Repo <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
