Last month the Italian film manufacturer Film Ferrania announced a second B&W film called Orto expanding their film portfolio.

This follows Ferrania P30 B&W film which was released back in 2017.

“Ferrania Orto is P30’s quirky cousin and features the same high silver content, inherently strong contrast and practically invisible grain as P30 – but this time, distinctly ortochromatica.”
 
“In the earliest days of silent cinema, film stock was blue-sensitive or orthochromatic. Hollywood relied on cosmetics as a “corrective” for on-screen actors. One hundred years later, the very “flaws” that plagued our predecessors are now the creative features that distinguish orthochromatic films today.”

The manufacturer suggests to shoot the film at box speed as the film is based on a classic formula. They also recommend the users to scan the Orto themselves for better instead of trusting the lab as sometimes the scans can come out too contrasty with some crushed blacks.

The Ferrania Orto is also chemically similar to P30 and, as such, the development instructions are roughly the same. For the full details on the development times for this film head to Ferrania website here.

The Ferrania Orto is manufactured in the Cairo Montenotte, Italy and we are looking forward to stock this film in our store at some point in the near future.