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Silberra B&W Photographic Films

Let's build small b&w film manufacture together and we will reward you with several new films!

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Silberra B&W Photographic Films

Silberra B&W Photographic Films

Silberra B&W Photographic Films

Silberra B&W Photographic Films

Silberra B&W Photographic Films

Let's build small b&w film manufacture together and we will reward you with several new films!

Let's build small b&w film manufacture together and we will reward you with several new films!

Let's build small b&w film manufacture together and we will reward you with several new films!

Let's build small b&w film manufacture together and we will reward you with several new films!

Konstantin Shabanov
Konstantin Shabanov
Konstantin Shabanov
Konstantin Shabanov
1 Campaign |
Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
$35,257 USD 754 backers
30% of $115,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
We need your help to start mass market production for Silberra film! We've already made test batches and you're able to find a lot of Silberra film shots at our Instagram. You'll see the product both is real and the quality of the film is outstanding! We've started this campaign to help upscale our manufacturing facilities in order to offer these new films throughout the world. We won't manage upscaling without your help!

Several important things we'd like you to read:


1) Full background on Silberra:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/silberra-b-w...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/silberra-b-w...

2) Combined shipping: the way out
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/silberra-b-w...

3) Silberra PAN series film is ready, the only thing we need is to make it mass market product by packing huge amount of it into beautiful boxes;

4) Silberra ORTA series film is ready by 90% today; three things we need to run it as mass market product are:
- purchasing good substrate to coat the emulsion;
- fixing a couple of minor faults in coating machine;
plus the same packing line to provide wholesale quantities of that film.

 

In accordance with Update #10 we've extended the duration of our campaign up to October, 30th. Thank you for your support!

 

Silberra Films: About Us

Since 2009 we've been manufacturing supplies for analog photography. We started it in our own lab, relying on the recipes we managed to acquire from different sources: encyclopedias, chemistry books, photographic guidebooks and many others. We've been studying chemistry, reinventing the solutions, trying to bring back the variety of the developers and auxiliary solutions from the times when analog photography flourished. 


We've passed a long way from small home-based lab to small-scale chemistry manufacture. This year we've decided that our products deserve their own brand name, and we gave birth to "Silberra" trade mark. This trade mark shall be the brand name for our films also and you can find a lot about the whole product range at our web-site: https://www.silberra.com .

Feel free to surf our Instagram  account also: https://www.instagram.com/silberrafilm/ . You'll find a lot of film shots made on Silberra film by photographers from all over the world.

 

Now we have 3 versions of Silberra PAN films (ISO160, ISO100 and ISO50) plus limited edition of Silberra PAN200 and Silberra Ultima200 (ISO200), which are black&white negative panchromatic films based on modified Agfa emulsions. We're ready to offer those in 35mm format, and we're working hard to start the production of 120 type. This film is 100% ready except packaging.

Here we have sample images from the coressponding film:

We have Silberra ORTA series, which is at beta-test phase now: black&white negative orthochromatic film based on totally new emulsions, and it will be available in 35mm format, 120 type and sheet films starting from 4"x5" and up to 8"x10". This film is 85% ready: we need to modify the coating machine to make it up to 100%.


R&D phase never ends: we're on the way to the next film already, and that shall be Silberra IC - new isochromatic black and white film, and then Silberra PANII will follow, new panchromatic emulsion.

We've been able to implement ideas into real products due to the only thing: we just kept doing the work each day and night. We did involve the best chemists and emulsion synthesis specialists we could reach. We've been telling them about the Renaissance of the film photography and we've been persuading them to postpone some technical films engineering to modify some of our films to make those really good for professional and common photography.

And here we represent the core team of Silberra (though lots of partners and assistants just stay behind the frame). 

What We Need & What You Get

We need to start mass market manufacturing of Silberra film to make it available worldwide. 

1) We need to make small semi-automated packaging line (or to subcontract one) to produce enough films to meet your demand (and we shall do it fast, for you not to spend years in waiting). 
2) We need to place order for corresponding amount of the beautiful cardboard boxes for Silberra film and it means that we need to buy it in wholesale quantity.
3) To start mass market manufacturing of ORTA film we need to buy substrate with all the properties that will suit us: anti halation layer, anti curling layer, and substrate shall be thin enough and yet reliable.
4) To run 120 Type manufacturing for all the films we need either to contract third-party manufacturing line or to create small semi-automated manufacturing line of our own;
5) We need R&D funds to go on with PANII (panchrome) emulsion and IC (isochrome) emulsion engineering. Every job must be paid, and scientific one shall be paid well.

Shall we succeed in acquiring the whole sum we're up to, we'll have really good ground for a start. Please keep in mind that backing us here you're not buying the rewards (film shall be much lower in price when mass manufacturing starts); you're backing us on running new film, new photo papers and new chemicals. And we won't disappoint you, folks.

As for rewards - we have a lot of them for you to choose. You can choose as much perks as you like; should you like to get several perks, all you need to do is to order the perks one at a time, that's it.
 

The Impact

One more place where new films are manufactured, that's what we'd like to implement with the help of that campaign. There are not too much photo films these days. Each new film which comes to the market is like new paint for painters: imagine that you've been limited to use just 5 or 6 colors through the whole life, and suddenly you have an option to use one more! Well, we've brought you a kind of color palette at once. 
 

Risks & Challenges

When you produce something new there are always risks and challenges. But we're sure that we'll overcome every challenge we have on our way. We've done too much to stop when facing any difficulty: there is no such option for us.

We have to engineer a lot in technics and emulsions too. But the only risk here is that we'll have to spend a bit more time solving the problem, than we're expecting. But we've got used to work fast, so the main thing for us is your faith and support: when one knows his efforts are not in vain, there are no obstacles in his way.
 

What for do we need money exactly? 

Here is the budgeting picture explaining the costs. As you see, we're placing a lot of the funds into perks manufacturing, as it will allow us to pre-order a lot of the components we need for full-scale manufacturing. While the first perks delivered at December 2017 are going to be hand rolled, the rest of the rewards shall be manufactured at the semi-automated or automated manufacturing line. Depending on the amount of the funds we will be able to acquire, we're going to construct it anew or subcontract one at the existing film manufacturing facilities. 

 

Other Ways You Can Help

We'll surely appreciate spreading the word about us. Possibly there are people ready to help us but they're just unaware of our existence: world is quite huge, you know... Tell them about Silberra via your social network profile and you'll help us a lot!

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Totally PANned
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Totally PANned

$50 USD
Silberra PAN 135 Set (PAN50+PAN100+PAN160) + Silberra PAN 120 Set (PAN50+PAN100+PAN160)
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 35mm
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 35mm
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 35mm
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 120T
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 120T
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 120T
Estimated Shipping
March 2018
15 out of 50 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Enthusiast's Perk

$5 USD
Your name in our online credits
Included Items
  • Your Name in Credits Online
Estimated Shipping
November 2017
14 claimed
35 mm Hi-Res PAN Kit

35 mm Hi-Res PAN Kit

$15 USD
Get two rolls of Silberra PAN series films in 35 mm (PAN100 and PAN50): high resolution, low speed, beautiful new boxes! Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 35mm
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 35mm
Estimated Shipping
January 2018
70 out of 1000 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
35 mm Fast Shooter PAN Kit

35 mm Fast Shooter PAN Kit

$15 USD
Get two rolls of Silberra PAN series in 35mm form factor: high sensitivity, superfine grain, new beautiful boxes! Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 35mm
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 35mm
Estimated Shipping
January 2018
52 out of 1000 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Silberra PAN200 35mm Limited

Silberra PAN200 35mm Limited

$15 USD
Get 2 rolls of Silberra limited edition 35 mm film: Silberra PAN200 and Silberra Ultima200! Fine grain, high sensitivity, hand rolled, packed into beautiful new boxes! Silberra special sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN200 35 mm film
  • Silberra Ultima200 35 mm film
Estimated Shipping
December 2017
213 out of 500 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
35mm ORTA Fan's Kit

35mm ORTA Fan's Kit

$20 USD
Get two rolls of new, high resolution orthochromatic Silberra ORTA film as soon as they are ready for shipping. Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra ORTA80 (ISO80) 35mm
  • Silberra ORTA50 (ISO50) 35mm
Estimated Shipping
April 2018
42 out of 1000 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
120 Type Hi-Res PAN Kit

120 Type Hi-Res PAN Kit

$20 USD
Get two rolls of Silberra PAN series 120 type films (PAN100 and PAN50): high resolution, low speed, beautiful new boxes! Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 120T
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 120T
Estimated Shipping
March 2018
46 out of 1500 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
120 Type Fast Shooter PAN Kit

120 Type Fast Shooter PAN Kit

$20 USD
Get two rolls of Silberra PAN series (Silberra PAN100, Silberra PAN160), type 120: high sensitivity, superfine grain, new beautiful boxes! Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 120T
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 120T
Estimated Shipping
March 2018
31 out of 1500 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
120 Type ORTA Fan's Kit

120 Type ORTA Fan's Kit

$30 USD
That's right! Two rolls of Silberra ORTA 120 Type film: ORTA50 and ORTA80! Right from the first batch, hand-numbered, with a special limited edition postcard from Silberra!
Included Items
  • Silberra ORTA50 (ISO50) 120T
  • Silberra ORTA80 (ISO80) 120T
Estimated Shipping
April 2018
30 out of 1000 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
35mm BIG Hi-Res PAN Kit

35mm BIG Hi-Res PAN Kit

$55 USD
The set of 10 Silberra 35mm Hi-Res PAN films: 5xSilberra PAN50; 5xSilberra PAN50.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 35mm (5)
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 35mm (5)
Estimated Shipping
January 2018
34 out of 300 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
35 mm BIG Fast Shooter PAN Kit

35 mm BIG Fast Shooter PAN Kit

$55 USD
The set of 10 Silberra 35mm high sensitive PAN films: 5xSilberra PAN100; 5xSilberra PAN160. Silberra sticker comes as a gift!
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 35mm (5)
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 35mm (5)
Estimated Shipping
January 2018
61 out of 300 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
6x35mm Films + Ascorol Dev

6x35mm Films + Ascorol Dev

$55 USD
Special perk. Set of 35-mm films, 2 of each ISO level, plus 2x100 Ascorol Developer! Limited Quantity! The price of the shipping goes higher a bit here due to Ascorol. But it also means that we can include more films into the package at the same shipping price level - their weight is almost neglectable when compared to Ascorol.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 35mm (2)
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 35mm (2)
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 35mm (2)
  • Silberra Ascorol (100ml conc.) (2)
Estimated Shipping
March 2018
28 out of 250 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
SIlberra PAN 120T+ Ascorol Kit

SIlberra PAN 120T+ Ascorol Kit

$70 USD
Special perk. Set of 120 Type films, 2 of each ISO level, plus 2x100 Ascorol Developer! Limited Quantity! The price of the shipping goes higher a bit here due to Ascorol. But it also means that we can include more films into the package at the same shipping price level - their weight is almost neglectable when compared to Ascorol.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 120T (2)
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 120T (2)
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 120T (2)
  • Silberra Ascorol (100ml conc.) (2)
Estimated Shipping
April 2018
12 out of 250 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
120T BIG Hi-Res Fan's PAN Kit

120T BIG Hi-Res Fan's PAN Kit

$75 USD
Get 10 rolls of Silberra Hi-Res PAN series 120 type films (PAN100 x5 and PAN50 x5): high resolution, low speed, beautiful new boxes! Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 120T (5)
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 120T (5)
Estimated Shipping
March 2018
41 out of 500 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
120T BIG Fast Shooter PAN Kit

120T BIG Fast Shooter PAN Kit

$75 USD
Get 10 rolls of Silberra PAN series (PAN100, PAN160), type 120: high sensitivity, superfine grain, new beautiful boxes! Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 120T (5)
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 120T (5)
Estimated Shipping
March 2018
18 out of 500 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
35 mm Grand ORTA Kit

35 mm Grand ORTA Kit

$100 USD
Get Silberra ORTA film kit of 35 mm (5x ORTA50, 5x ORTA80). Silberra sticker comes as a gift. Enjoy yor film!
Included Items
  • Silberra ORTA80 (ISO80) 35mm (5)
  • Silberra ORTA50 (ISO50) 35mm (5)
Estimated Shipping
April 2018
10 out of 300 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
120T Grand ORTA Kit

120T Grand ORTA Kit

$150 USD
Silberra ORTA kit of 10x 120 type films (Silberra ORTA50 x5, Silberra ORTA80 x5). Ready to send in April 2018. Silberra sticker comes as a gift.
Included Items
  • Silberra ORTA50 (ISO50) 120T (5)
  • Silberra ORTA80 (ISO80) 120T (5)
Estimated Shipping
April 2018
5 out of 300 of claimed
Ships worldwide.
Collector's Choice

Collector's Choice

$250 USD
This reward is for those who prefer the best. It includes all the films boxed in a limited edition collector's box, plus a limited edition sticker, plus shipping. We'll also place your name on the Founders Wall at the Silberra Office.
Included Items
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 35mm
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 35mm
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 35mm
  • Silberra ORTA80 (ISO80) 35mm
  • Silberra ORTA50 (ISO50) 35mm
  • Silberra ORTA50 (ISO50) 120T
  • Silberra ORTA80 (ISO80) 120T
  • Silberra PAN100 (ISO100) 120T
  • Silberra PAN50 (ISO50) 120T
  • Silberra PAN160 (ISO160) 120T
Estimated Shipping
April 2018
17 out of 100 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

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