Lucky Film 16mm single + double perforations

Brandon Paterno · May 25

word on the street (another forum) is that Chinese film manufacturer Lucky Film is looking into and or beginning to make small gauge motion picture film. in the early 2000s they used to manufacture film for Kodak. nowadays they make a small selection of still cam films. It was bound to happen eventually !

Pavan Deep · May 25

Where can I find more information about this?

Pav

Brandon Paterno · May 26

i’ve got nothing more atm, if you wanna get a little chinese with it then lucky film is reachable on xiaohongshu

Gautam Valluri · May 26

The information I've heard is that this is a 16mm version of their new 50 ISO reversal film that they unveiled at a Photo expo in Beijing recently. Apparently the talk is that they're testing it and are willing to produce it if there is enough demand.

Gregg MacPherson · May 27

I saw some some bulk load stills film on Ali Express...LUCKY Black & White Negative SHD50 SHD100 30.5 Meters... High Resolution...USD41 incl shipping. Can this be run in an Eyemo or an Arri 2...?

Hopefully the Chinese can manufacture cine film at high enough quality. And it could be really cheap, a great thing for artists and art film makers.

Gautam Valluri · May 27

11 minutes ago, Gregg MacPherson said:

I saw some some bulk load stills film on Ali Express...LUCKY Black & White Negative SHD50 SHD100 30.5 Meters... High Resolution...USD41 incl shipping. Can this be run in an Eyemo or an Arri 2...?

You could perhaps first buy a single 135 stills cartridge to see if the perfs hold in your Eyemo/ Arri IIC? $41 for 30m is cheap. Only thing to enquire would be if they ship on cinema film cores or those diamond-shaped Ilford bulk cores? If not, respooling inside a dark bag is possible, you'll just have to do it twice to get the right winding direction.

Keep us posted if you do give it a shot Gregg.