Great article! I was so intrigued by the Ilfocolor Cine Tone I went to their website and saw that they have “Ilfochrome Color Reversal” in 24 and 36 exposures. Were you aware of that? Probably Ektachrome E100 but still worth knowing about.
“Vintage,” featuring Moses Sumney, was shot on “yet-to-be-released” Kodak film.
This beautiful piece of cinematography, music, and performance was shot over a year ago on a “yet-to-be-released and never-before-used motion picture stock, which is similar to a beloved professional still photography film,” as the award-winning cinematographer Marcel Rev confirmed on his Instagram page.
Thanks for the great article. I’m planning to stay at Krabi for the summer, do you know of any film labs there? Otherwise i was planning to send the film to bangkok to develop but i take it from your review that i don’t want to send B&W film to Sweet Film Bar?
Looks like I may be visiting a Leica store for the first time this summer!
The new black-and-white ISO 50 Leica MONOPAN will be available starting August 21st. Once on sale, it should cost £10/€12/$10/$14? CAD per roll.
Many sources, including websites like DPReview, agree with you, @ellabomga: this may be white-labelled Adox HR-50. Both Leica’s and Adox films are made in Germany, both are ISO 50, and both are super panchromatic (meaning, the film can be shot with an infrared filter to get a special effect). Leica’s website has a few examples that show glowing foliage: leica-camera.com/en-int/ph….
Despite costing more than the presumable HR-50, Leica’s new film may have better availability than the Adox’ offering that B&H lists as discontinued (I don’t think any brick-and-mortar stores in Canada sell it). So, if it’s the same film, Adox may be getting a few more sales; in fact, I’m sure that the HR-50 is getting more attention now than in a long while.
Of course, Leica’s film will have LEICA spelled on the borders, which may mean something.
Another thing about this film is that it would be **Leica’s first 35mm film product,** which I find very interesting: the company waited 100 years to offer 35mm film even though they pioneered the 135 film format for the industry!
Sounds plausible! Although one can’t tell for sure until either the brand reveals the source or there are good one-to-one comparisons between those films.
I can’t be the only person who expected a little more when teased like that, Harman!
But I am happy for the folks who love to shoot redscale film. It’s a very cool effect, and it can be tricky to make at home from medium format film.
The neat thing about redscaling is that you can turn any colour film “inside-out,” including the unusual emulsions like Lomochrome Turquoise and Kodak Aerochrome: analog.cafe/r/the-redscale….
Leica describes their 35mm film as ultra-fine-grained, super-panchromatic, suitable for shooting wide-open in daylight with “Noctilux-M, Summilux-M, or Summicron-M lenses.”
There’s no release date.
Despite being addressed as “genuine” in the release, the likelihood of Leica secretly owning a film factory is low. Leica has previously rebranded Fujifilm Instax film for their Sofort cameras.
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The internet is already sharing jokes about the film costing $40/roll. Leica is no stranger to using the power of its brand to charge more for third-party products.
However, film rebrands aren’t as simple as slapping a label on a canister; there’s a lot Leica could do to make their emulsion unique (see analog.cafe/r/who-made-you…). And it’s one more powerful voice promoting film photography.
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This page counts all the major photographic brands and makes sold today: analog.cafe/app/all-film. It shows 270. I’m now waiting for it, impatiently, to change. Maybe it’ll turn 275 this year. Or more?
New films (TBD) from Harman and CineStill + ULF orders!
During the past few days, both Harman and CineStill posted teasers of their upcoming releases; meanwhile, Ilford is now taking orders for ultra-large format (ULF) film.
Harman’s tease on Treads (threads.com/@harmanphoto/p…, and elsewhere) shares a date, June 17th, as a launch spot for their upcoming something. Word on the street is that it’s an update to their Phoenix emulsion (analog.cafe/r/harman-phoen…). Let’s see if that’s correct, just a few days left!
As some of you may know, Harman uses the Ilford brand name to sell black-and-white film they make (if this is a surprise, read this: analog.cafe/r/harman-phoen…). Anyways, they are now taking orders for odd and very large film sizes at your local retailers, see: ilfordphoto.com/ultra-larg…
Lastly, CineStill has teased three upcoming announcements with a cryptic “+” graphic on Instagram (instagram.com/p/DKft2OBMLG…) — some photographers are guessing that it may have something to do with a positive (slide) film. Let’s see how that pans out.
By the way, I’ve asked CineStill about Kodak’s latest announcement that could affect their products — but I haven’t heard back. Perhaps they’re busy prepping for the launch. Context: analog.cafe/comments/6lnk
Aside from supporting people and businesses you like, rebranded films may be sold where the original emulsion is not. Respooled films can also sell for less because they may have a different logistic path and margins. For example, Kosmo Foto Mono is cheaper than Fomapan 100 here in Canada. More info: analog.cafe/r/who-made-you…
Some films that are commonly thought as straight rebrands in fact are not. For example, see the comparisons of all daylight 800 colour films (and the easily recognizable differences between them): analog.cafe/r/all-the-iso-…
I’m in the process of re-creating the KIE look in digital.
I have an Olympus OM-1 that I’ve converted to full-spectrum, with a bunch of in-body clip-in filters (from stcoptics.com) for various frequency cut-offs.
I bought a “protection filter” in the clip-in format, and am planning to mount various yellow filters on it. I have a 25mm diamond hole saw, which will make the size needed by the clip-in filter holder.
At that point, I’ll have infrared in the blue channel, and IR+red and IR+green. I’m planning on using ImageMagick to do channel subtraction and re-assignment, so that IR will be magenta, red will be yellow, and green will be cyan.
Then I won’t have to worry about digging ancient film out of the freezer to get my KIE fix!
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