What is Santa film?

Santa film or Santa RAE 1000 is a new 35mm 1000 ASA high speed black and white film. It was first released in a limited run of 1500 units on March 6th 2019. By the end of the year all were sold out.

Is this a new emulsion?

Yes. Outside of the powers of the north, this has not been available to humans or the analog community worldwide.

What else is new?

Santa film will be releasing a second batch of film in March 2020. This new batch of 35mm film will be 36 exposure rolls (24exp in 2019). The film also has redesigned graphics and packaging.

Will there be more?

Santas factories manufacture the film material continuosly, but the hard part is getting it to the formats used by humans. Everything is spooled by hand and therefore manufactured in batches. Every time a batch runs out, we can ask if a new one could be made.

Will it be DX coded?

You humans have too many digital film cameras. We use fully mechanical ones at Korvatunturi. Anything is possible with the permission of Santa Claus, but currently we do not DX code our film.

When will it be available?

Join out email list to get notified when the film is ready to ship. It will be in March 2020 or earlier.

How is the film 1000 ISO?

The 2019 batch of the film was shot by people around the world at ISO 1000 or 800 with great results. Santa and his troop have propietary developing chemicals and machines to develop their own film, that are not available to us humans, so the sensitivity with human chemicals is relative to how you develop it. See the developing instructions page for good ISO1000 results.