Profile: KONO! Reanimated Film

KONO! The Reanimated Film is a series of films repurposed from motion picture film or other sources for use in 35mm format. There are different types of film available at any one time, so checking back for something new might be an idea.

For example, Japan Camera Hunter tried out Donau ISO 6 (six!) film (which turned out to have a heavy blue cast and was hard to shoot handheld), and Rotwild experimental film which seemed to be a red-scale film. The Donau was difficult to use and had little latitude, while the Rotwild evoked these comments:

"It gives lovely rich reds and orange tones to your images which can be a lot of fun to experiment with. I had a blast playing with this stuff and took my time shooting it." -- JCH

Neither of these films were available at time of writing.

in July last year, amyjasek of 52 Rolls gave a package of Kono! Kolorkit with 125T, 250 and 400 films a trial for one week. Note that the 200 is not available as of writing. There are plenty of scanned shots to browse through to get a feel for these films. The 125T is an indoors (tunsten) film, but adjusting the colour in postprocessing seemed to give realistic colours without difficulty.

Kono! The Reanimated Film has more shots on Instagram. A number of different films are featured there.

As of writing, Kolorkit 125T, Kolorkit 400T colour films, Rekorder B&W film and Luft & Liebe films are available. Rekorder is a ISO 100 to 200 film, while Luft & Liebe is a colour negative film with hearts pre-exposed onto the film. A fun film for being playful with friends.

Find Kono! film at the retailers listed here.

Inside Ansel Adam's Darkroom

Marc Silber of Advancing your Photography takes a look inside Ansel Adams' last darkroom, including some footage of the great photographer demonstrating the art of printing himself. Most of the footage is centered around the hefty large format enlarger, which is on rails on the floor. The easel is also on rails and both can be positioned independently. Of course, Adams had moved in the past, so there previous darkrooms.

Previous articles on Ansel Adams:
* Profile on Ansel Adams

Saga of Film Ferrania Continues

Just a quick note on the latest news from the LRF. Apparently, the state of the building, or rather the services to it, are not as well set up as one might have expected. Problems with the public water supply, electrical supply and natural gas supply persist, though the project has worked around each of these road blocks. Hopefully, the project does not suffer badly from a thousand paper cuts as it tries to work towards producing the much awaited E6 film.

Well worth a read.

 

Past articles on Film Ferrania:

* Film Ferrania Update April 2016
* Film Ferrania February 2016
* News from the LRF Start of 2016
* News from the LRF 2015