Light Lens Lab outlined ambitious goals for 2025 and shared more samples of their newly formulated black-and-white film.
“This emulsion reflects the heart of our film project: to create film materials without historial [sic] baggage, third-party patent entanglements, or manufacturer dependency. It is built from the ground up — powered by creativity and user feedback. Our prototype assembly line is set to begin operation in June 2025, with V3 emulsion production following shortly thereafter.” — @lightlenslab.com/blogs/upc…
Light Lens Lab (located in Shangrao, China) is on the cusp of releasing a newly-formulated black-and-white film which, according to their blog post, would feature “the widest colour sensitivity range among civilian black-and-white films, achieving a range of around 380-700nm.”
The new film should be available in 135, 120, and sheet formats. But there’s more:
LLL is working on peel-apart film, an ISO 400 traditional grain film (the emulsion that’s nearing production is an ISO 125 T-Grain; what is T-Grain: analog.cafe/r/ilford-delta…), motion picture formats, inc. 70mm, and researching colour slide films, including the possibility of resurrecting the K-14 process (a.k.a., the Kodachrome process).
Dmitri Jun 2, ‘25
Kaiser Jun 2, ‘25
Dmitri Jun 2, ‘25