Filmshooting

I think everyone needs to understand that this is not a "turnkey" operation. There will be snags. There will be hurdles. Hopefully all these will be overcome.

It comes as no surprise to me that there are delays, most major operations like this take years to reach fruition.

Remember: Nothing is forever. :ymsigh: Anyone carrying a flag for analogue video? ;) Anyone carrying a flag for tape? ;;) I actually have a nice Canon digital tape camcorder. While 576 is not quite as good as 720 on our domestic TV there is very little difference. I am thinking of using this Canon ...

Don't underestimate how long the road is to film production for Ferrania. This isn't a turnkey operation they need to move several huge machines into their building, get them going again, finalise the formulae and so on.....it is quite something that they can do this at all. But it's great that seve...

They update the news at about once a month, "Dispatches From The LRF" I got my postcard for contributing to the Kickstarter fund, not in time for Christmas but in early January. I am sure they're working hard to get the machinery in working order and then to run off the first batch of film...

I believe Kodak D19 was discontinued a few years ago. I was pretty pee'd off about it.

D76 is still available or you could try Ilford ID11. Either will work for B&W reversal but won't look the same as D19.

I've been dealing with potassium dichromate powder and solution professionally for 15 years and I just use gloves. It's quite nasty but if handled carefully poses less of a threat than mixing two household cleaners in your toilet. But it's a moot point as you can't get it unless you're a laboratory ...

B&W reversal only uses one more chemical compared to B&W negative and that's the bleach. Now that dichromate bleach is more or less banned whatever they put in the developing kits is probably no worse than what some people dye their hair with. There are a couple of extra steps compared to ne...

There's no reason why the dichromate solution shouldn't last years. It's best kept in the dark, and replaced when/if it starts looking seriously discoloured. It should be a rather pleasing deep orange colour. A sediment on the bottom of the bottle is OK but if this starts becoming a problem (ie gett...

Bear in mind that I've worked in laboratories for the last 15 years with chemicals that are far more hazardous than anything you can buy from a photographic equipment dealer. While that has perhaps meant that I am more familiar with the processes and less fearful, it also means that I am well versed...

A quick google search shows that the actual kit box and chemical bottles do have the requisite warnings and instructions. I don't think *anything* available to the general public requires a respirator! the bleach might be carcinogenic, although bear in mind that by the same definition so are certain...

Happy New Year!

I have a couple of rolls of 100D in the freezer awaiting some sort of filming project.....maybe a car race in the spring.

I fully intend to buy some Ferrania, how much depends on cost of course.

I missed 2001 which is a little annoying as I just learned that I went to school with the offspring of two people who worked on the special effects in that film... 2K cinema projection as offered by my local Cineworld is barely better than HD TV. To be honest I'd don't rate the experience at all. Ho...

In my experience, which is considerable but not vast, practically no film becomes unreadable. A good friend who's also a colorist tells me all the time that almost no film is unusable... he's recovered decent images off of EXR 50 that's been left out in a garage in Texas for 20 years, shot and proc...

There's a tiny amount of crazing in a handful of the 200+ reels my grandfather left, and which were stored either in an attic or a garage from 1972-1993. That's twenty years of poor storage, fluctuating temperatures, dust, etc. For the most part those films look like they could have been shot last w...

Kodachrome turning to mud? What the heck did you do to it in order to achieve that? In my experience, which is considerable but not vast, practically no film becomes unreadable. I was given custody of my late grandfather's reg 8mm Kodachrome films in 1993. From his death in 1972 to that date they'd ...