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HARMAN technology Limited, trading as ILFORD PHOTO, is a global market leader and the only manufacturer in the world to provide a full range of black & white film, darkroom paper, photochemistry and ancillary products. For over 137 years, generations of customers have demanded the very best. And this is why they continue to choose ILFORD. Operating from our manufacturing headquarters in Cheshire, UK. Our products are shipped around the globe and into the discerning hands of beginners, enthusiasts, stud...

The 1800's Alfred Harman 1879 founded by Alfred Harman making Dry Plates 1891 became the Britannia Works Company making 4 kinds of plates and 6 kinds of paper 1897 record profits 1897 sold by Alfred Harman who retired due to ill health 1898 became known as The Britannia Works (1898) Limited 1899 first Ilford Manual of Photography 1900 to 1940 1902 changed name to Ilford Limited 1912 Ilford started to produce roll films 1920 Selo Limited formed incorporating Ilford, Imperial, Gem and Amalgam...

You have loaded film into your camera, composed your image and pressed the shutter. You have now captured an image on your film. When that film is processed, it reverses the tones of the subject. In simple terms, the image is dark where the subject was light, and light where the subject was dark. That resulting image is known as a negative. What do I do with them? Negatives are normally then used to make prints by reversing the image a second time to restore the light and dark areas to their original tone...

Whether you are new to film photography or picking it up again after a number of years, it is very easy to get started and a rewarding activity regardless of your level of expertise. Introduction to film photography To get you started we've created a series of animations that will introduce you to the world of film photography. These short 60 second animated videos cover a range of topics and terminologies to quickly get you up to speed. From f-stop to film types, these videos are the perfect entry point...

Hand colouring The idea of adding colour to a monochrome image by hand dates back to the beginning of photography. At this time it was the only way to get a colour photograph. Although colour photography using the three colour process was put forward just short of thirty years after the first photograph by Nicephore Niepce,  it was, in its early years, expensive and difficult to produce a colour image. Hand colouring became a practical way to give the impression of colour and everything from Daguerroty...

9th March 2017 ILFORD PHOTO announce the winners of their 2016 UK Student Competition ‘Pretty Ugly’ With almost 1000 entries, from schools, colleges and universities across the country, the 2016 competition witnessed an exceptionally high standard of darkroom printing which took several rounds of judging and plenty of debate before the winning images were selected. The standard was so high this year that the judges have also awarded an additional three images as highly commended along with the over...

24th February 2016 After another year of record entries HARMAN technology Ltd announces the winners of their UK Student Competition 2015 "Saturday Night at the Movies" At just short of 1000 entries, it took the judges several hours to decide which image should be selected as the winner. The standard was so high this year that the judges felt they couldn’t limit their choices to a single runner-up and have instead awarded four runners-up prizes along with the winner. The title of ‘ILFORD PHOTO St...

22nd December 2015 Storm over Vestrahorn, Iceland. Selenium and Thiourea toned silver gelatine ©Tim Rudman/National Trust   ‘Iceland, an Uneasy Calm’ is a series of photographs taken in Iceland over the last eight years by Tim Rudman who is acknowledged as one of the very finest landscape photographers working today. This stunning collection will be exhibited at the National Trust Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, Britain’s birthplace of photography, from 9 January to 10 July 2016. Tim describ...

29th March 2016 Buoyed by the fantastic response from the film photography community around the world, HARMAN technology Limited are delighted to be offering film photographers the opportunity to place orders for a range of specialist film products for the 11th consecutive year. With the continued revival in film photography, it is vital to have film available for photographers using ultra large format alongside previously popular film formats for antique and collectable cameras. By consolidating order...

26th July 2016 ILFORD Photo (HARMAN technology Ltd) are delighted to introduce 'ILFORD inspires’, a series of events aimed at broadening the appeal of black and white film photography to a wider audience. The first of these events takes place on August 4th in Philadelphia, PA and features an insight into and showcase of the incredible work of artist, educator and master printer Chuck Kelton. Chuck’s feature talk will describe his experiences working with some of the most iconic photographers of...