Ferrania

image by AWCam (Image rights)

Ferrania, founded in 1923, was an Italian company known mainly as a producer of film, but they produced some cameras as well and were also involved in various other areas related to photography such as printing. 3M acquired the company in the 1964. The 3M brand and Scotch was most commonly used. Cine film was discontinued. By this time their films were mostly store branded films bearing "Made in Italy" as the only indication. In 1995, after 3M's restructuring its data-storage and imaging businesses became Imation, a couple of years later the film division was sold off and the Ferrania name returned. In 2006, Ferrania was restructured into Ferrania Technologies, which concentrated primarily on pharmaceutical products, and a solar panel division called Ferrania Solis. In October 2012, the company fired almost all of their employees, after they had already stopped film production in late 2009.

In 2013, the successor company Film Ferrania acquired Ferrania's old production machinery with the purpose to restart film production.

Ferrania Films of the 1950s image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights)

120 Ferrania film with 3M branding 160 ASA, dated 1969 image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights)

Cameras

image by Michele M. F. (Image rights)

• 1073-x
• Alfa
• Astor
• Ferrania 3M 1014
• Automatic 1024
• Automatic 1036
• Beta
• Condor / Condor I / Condor Ic
• Condor Junior
• Condoretta
• Condor II
• Ferrania Delta
• Elioflex
• Elioflex 2
• Eura
• Eura Rapid
• Euramatic
• Euralux 34
• Euralux 44
• Falco S
• Ferrania Ibis
• Ferrania Ibis 34
• Ferrania Ibis 44
• Ibis 6/6
• Lince 2
• Lince 3
• Lince Rapid
• Rondine
• Tanit
• Veramatic
• Zephir 2
• Zeta Duplex / Zeta Duplex 2

Film

Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 200ISO 126 film image by ulfcytel (Image rights)

Ferrania produced its Solaris colour negative film for the 135 (35mm) and APS film formats. It was often sold rebadged under different names, or as an in-house film. It was also sold under the Scotch or Imation branding when it was acquired by 3M. It was available at ASA 100, 200, 400 and 800 for 35mm and ASA 200 for APS and in other formats including 110 and 120 earlier. It was the last film available for the 126 format, in late 2007.

Color

• Ferrania Solaris FG100
• Ferrania Solaris FG200
• Ferrania Solaris FG400
• Ferrania Solaris FG400i
• Ferrania Solaris FG800
• Ferrania Solaris FG800i
• Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 100
• Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 200
• Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 400
• Ferrania Solaris FG Plus 800

Black and white

• Ferrania Pancro
• Ferrania Superex Panchro

Links

• Ferrania Film website; and news of the new (2013) Ferrania company
• Ferrania Technologies - chemicals and dyes
• Ferrania camera page at Collection G. Even's site (in French)
• Ferrania Wonderland group on flickr.com
• Solaris people photographic gallery
• Page about Ferrania P36 Panchro film.
• Un Mondo D'Argento - Breve storia dei supporti per la fotografia in Italia 1839-1939 (by Donato Consonni - in Italian)
• Le Fotocamere a marchio Ferrania (by Donato Consonni - in Italian
• Ferrania cameras at Fotocamere Italiane (Japanese)