Uh, your spelling is incorrect. Ferrania uses the name SOLARIS for its C-41 negative films.
Just a historical note: Ferrania is--AFAIK--a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 3M Corporation, or at least it was when I worked for them in the 1980s. I worked in their photofinishing division, 3M Photo, and we were buying both paper and film from the parent company.
We did a lot of private label film, and if memory serves, the film I remember seeing come into the plant gradually shifted from Italian to U.S. manufacture between 1980 and 1984. Don't take this as gospel, as I wasn't intimately involved with that end of things.
I remember asking if any of Ferrania's B&W products were available, and I was told that they weren't being imported, as the market was pretty much in the hands of Kodak, Ilford & AGFA.
Just a historical note: Ferrania is--AFAIK--a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 3M Corporation, or at least it was when I worked for them in the 1980s. I worked in their photofinishing division, 3M Photo, and we were buying both paper and film from the parent company.
We did a lot of private label film, and if memory serves, the film I remember seeing come into the plant gradually shifted from Italian to U.S. manufacture between 1980 and 1984. Don't take this as gospel, as I wasn't intimately involved with that end of things.
I remember asking if any of Ferrania's B&W products were available, and I was told that they weren't being imported, as the market was pretty much in the hands of Kodak, Ilford & AGFA.
Actually, according to this page they were spun off as part of Imation, and then Ferrania itself was sold again in 1999: "Ferrania Technologies is acquired by Schroder Ventures - Europe (now Permira). The company is launched as an independent company."
These are the `Ilfochrome Micrographics´films `M´and `P´(different gammas).
They are direct-positive dye-bleach films, of course slow, with a a void in the spectral sensitivity and very expensive. They should be available in different sizes (incl. DP 35mm) in the USA via Calumet.
I assume they are produced as their `papers´ in the Ilford Imaging plant in Marly (CH).
These are the `Ilfochrome Micrographics´films `M´and `P´(different gammas).
They are direct-positive dye-bleach films, of course slow, with a a void in the spectral sensitivity and very expensive. They should be available in different sizes (incl. DP 35mm) in the USA via Calumet.
I assume they are produced as their `papers´ in the Ilford Imaging plant in Marly (CH).
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