Random News From August 2017

Film Ferrania

Film Ferrania has announced final shipping fo P30, their first attempt at commercial silver halide film. The black and white film inspired by Ferrania B&W movie film is high in silver content and gives a rich tonality. They plan to start selling P30 in their shop soon. With much more work to do at the factory, hopefully they can get to producing E6 colour slide film eventually.

Intrepid Camera 8x10 Kickstarter

Inptrepid Cameras has declared that their first 8x10 camera has just been assembled. At a svelte 295x295x75mm and 2.15kg, the camera is even lighter and smaller than announced on Kickstarter.

Kodak teams with Girl Skateboards

Kodak has teamed up with Girl Skateboards to produce skateboard decks and clothing with classic film branding from Kodak. “Girl videos have always been partially shot on film. The 20 plus years of our archived photos are all shot on film,” said Sam Smyth, Girl Skateboards. Check it out, lots of great shots featuring these boards and clothing.

Ilford Publishes Reciprocity Failure Table

Ilford published a document on reciprocity failure for Ilford films. The short, one page document gives instructions for calculating exposure times where the metered exposure is over one second. With a scientific handheld calculator, calculator app on your computer (in scientific mode) or a calculator app on your phone (when held horizontally), the y^x key can be used with the time factor in the document to calculate a compensated time. Due to contrast in the scene, development time may need to be reduced (pulled) due to different light levels present. Other factors may come into play affecting the exposure, so some experimentation may still be needed.
To see how Ilford's table works, consider Ilford Delta 3200 in a scene which requires 8 seconds of exposure time. The compensation factor at time of writing for this film is 1.33. So, on the calculator enter 8 (the time), press y^x, then enter 1.33 (the factor for Delta 32000) and finally press =. The result in this case is 15.889 seconds. Round this to 16 seconds and use for the exposure time.
Substitute the time from your exposure meter and the appropriate factor for the film you are using for your situation.