Italian film producer FILM Ferrania has teased the released of a new black-and-white film, hinting at a product with a high silver content.
FILM Ferrania’s Instagram account ran two videos over the weekend, the first showing a film being loaded into a Leica rangefinder, and the second showing a photographer on location and then turning on a red safe light in a darkroom.
The first post reads: “Ciao Ferrania community, something 💣 is about to be dropped.
Warning: this video contains a high percentage of silver spoilers. Are you ready?”
Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that the Leica’s ISO dial is set to 160 – the same speed as Ferrania’s P33 cinema film.
FILM Ferrania said last year it was preparing to release a new version of the film. It would be the company’s third film since it was launched in 2013 from surviving remnants of the Ferrania film factory in northern Italy.
Though FILM Ferrania’s original Kickstarter was intended to reinstate Ferrania’s colour slide film, the first emulsion was in fact a new version of P30, a black-and-white cinema stock. The film was first released in 35mm and then in 120.
That film was followed by the orthochromatic Orto film in 2023.
FILM Ferrania’s announcement in November that it would be restarting production of P33 was accompanied by confirmation it would also release a new version of P36, an ISO-320 black-and-white film produced after World War II.
No further information on when P36 goes into production has yet been divulged.
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