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Washi Z is an industrial film originally intended for use in aerial surveillance of vegetation. This would allow people to map areas of different vegetation, with obvious benefits for agriculture, geology, geography and military.
We asked Lomig, the man behind the Washi brand, for this thoughts:
- Regarding the film Z-135, this is probably the most "normal" film of my range so I am afraid to have less fun fact than for previous wonderbox.
- This was one of the 2 first industrial films I started to convert in 135 format, back in 2015, when I realized that surveillance film was still produced and could be adapted to be used in normal cameras
- This was the same year I got married so for the big day I loaded some Single Use Camera with this film and handed it to people so they could have fun shooting it and we had really nice results
- It also proved that this is really a good film because Single Use Camera do not have settings at all
- So I still shoot it in single use camera when I am traveling, like during my trip in the USA in 2019 for a workshop in Dallas. I love the "unsharp" look it gives to the pictures, combined with the close infrared shift in the greyscale
As an aerial surveillance film, its main use is the aerial mapping of vegetation. In black & white, if you take an aerial picture of a forest you will have mainly uniform grey patches with very little differences. So you need a close infrared film to enhance the difference of green to get clear grey difference so you can clearly state that this area is composed of pine, this one of oaks, this one of chestnut etc… (another fun fact is that my first studies was about forestry and
protection of nature, I even make a training period at Beinn Eighe Natural Nature Reserve in Scotland!)
And it is equally loved by some of our customers:
Loved the tones! I’d seen this mentioned several times online so bought a couple of rolls to try it for myself and wasn’t disappointed. I shoot mainly urban panoramas at the moment with a camera that has a fixed aperture (f8) and just two shutter speeds (1/60th sec and 2secs) so need a forgiving film. This delivered on all counts. Developed in Rodinal (1+25) it produced lovely crisp negatives with a lovely tonal range. It’s a film I shall definitely pop in my AW basket from time to time in the future.
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