Film Washi

Film Washi is a French photographic materials company launched in 2013 and based in Brittany, France, describing itself as the world's smallest company to produce photographic materials. It specializes in handcrafted film making and industrial film conversion, offering a range of unique and innovative films. Its activity began with film "W", a black and white handcrafted film hand-coated on a traditional Japanese paper known as Washi, and it also converts specialty films made in other factories into standard photographic formats.

Film Washi was founded in 2013 by Lomig Perrotin in a closet of his Parisian flat, and then in the family garage in Saint-Nazaire. The company grew while staying a one-man-business. Its facilities are now located in decommissioned French Army containers, somewhere in Brittany. The company's ethos is based on values of innovation, simplicity and ecology, and its adopted processes link it to the Maker and DIY movements, with recycling taking an important part in the making of films. Film Washi was born with film "W": a black and white handcrafted film that is hand-coated on a traditional Japanese paper known as Washi, inspired by the paper negatives of Henry Fox-Talbot (1841, Calotype) and the early Eastman paper rolls (1884, Translucene). Besides this artisanal activity, Film Washi offers specialty films made in other factories but reserved to a limited field of technical applications, and converts these films to standard photographic formats so they can be used in normal cameras. It also offers professional or individual clients the possibility to order specific, custom works.

Specialized in handcrafted film making and industrial film conversion, offering a wide range of unique and innovative films.

• Film "W" - 25 iso/15° orthochromatic film on Kozo paper

  The original Washi Film, hand coated on Moriki Paper's Tosa Washi (Kozo). With high sensitivity to blue, less to green and no sensitivity to red light, this film gives best results with urban, portrait and still life photography. Available in sheet-films and 35mm, but also in 120 or 620 formats.

• Film "Y" - 100 iso/21° panchromatic film on Kozo paper

  The W 2.0: same Kozo paper base coated with a panchromatic 100 iso emulsion that makes it much easier to expose and to use with all kind of subjects.

• Film "F" - 100 iso/21° medical fluorographic X-ray film

  A special X-ray film used for mass lung disease diagnose and it is the first time such film is made available in 135. It offers, being coated without anti-halation layer, a high diffusion effect and beautiful grain.

• Film "Z" - 400 iso/27° near infrared film

  Originally coated for aerial vegetation mapping, "Z" is a near infrared sensitive film, offering nice contrast and green shades separation, making it perfect for landscape photography.

• Film "X" - 100 iso/21° maskless color film

  A technical film with no orange mask that gives beautiful warm toned and highly saturated pictures which recall the first color negative film of the 40's & 50's. It also offers the possibility to process it in both C41 (negative) or E6 (slide) process.

• Film "S" - 50 iso/18° sound recording film

  A film used by motion picture professionals for sound recording, an use which requires very fine grain and ultra high definition. This sharpness is guaranteed by a special anti-halation layer located between the film's base and the emulsion layer, while it's usually in back layer for ordinary films. Because of the high price increase of this film, it is not possible to produce it anymore.

• Film "A" - 12 iso/12° leader film

  A black & white film used as leader and protection during the repro…

• Film "V" - 100 iso/21° panchromatic film on Gampi paper

  A new handcrafted film, more transparent, more sensitive and with better latitude exposure. Because of issue in Gampi paper supply, the production of this film is stopped.

• Film "K" - 100 iso/21° vintage aerial film

  Film "K" is converted from rolls of Kodak Plus-X Aerographic Film 2402, that expire…

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