Ferrania P30

Ok, this time I swear I did it right, I followed the instructions!

The Ferrania P30 is a very delicate beast and although I really followed the “cooking recipe” by Ferrania, the results are again too contrasty and apparently underexposed. But I didn’t actually underxpose a single frame on this roll. On the contrary, I overexposed everything by lowering the iso setting to 50 (instead of 80) and giving another +1 of exposure just in case. So, why this mess, you may ask? Well, it seems I did something wrong anyway, and that is shooting with the sun behind my subject – in backlight, as they used to say. Backlighting your subject may be a risky move if you don’t compensate accordingly and it seems that Ferrania P30 needs someone who knows what he/she’s doing while operating the camera. Maybe it’s the right time to remember this is an old cinematography emulsion repackaged for stills (thats’s quite a trend these days) and camera operators in the cinema industry they don’t (usually) improvise. On the bright side (pun intended) it’s true that Ferrania P30 is one of the less grainy film stock you can buy nowadays. If you like resolution, dislike grain and you are absolutely certain about your camera settings AND lighting on the scene… well, go buy a truckload of these rolls and have fun.