> There is no C-41 Ferrania stocks being manufactured, hasn't been for some > years. Ferrania closed their film factory 2006.
Wow! I had no idea. I'm still seeing Ferrania films coming out of the pipeline but they're probably just the dregs of old production. For a while, Ferrania were the kings of "house brand" C-41 film and every supermarket and drugstore brand print film said "Made in Italy" in tiny letters. > 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). Making film is a difficult process; even if you know what went into the original making a replica in a consistent fashion is difficult. Kodak had an army of engineers and when they moved production of their cinefluorography films from France to the US it took them a year before they could get the consistency right. And that's a simple, single-coating B&W film. > 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. Granted, although with C-41 there are only two companies making it. > 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. No, C-41 stocks will work okay in ECN-II chemistry. The curves are a little funny, but here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHYwjVCscY This isn't a very good quality transfer, but this was Kodak 400ASA consumer film in a Eyemo. Edited workprint scanned on a Marconi machine. Yeah, I should have brought a tripod... --scott _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
