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Lifelong love of black and white
Growing up in the late fifties and sixties, one of my favourite movies was The Day the Earth Stood Still, a lot of which was shot at night in black and white. That early exposure to film noir inspired a lifelong love of black and white photography, especially at night.
When I first started shooting pictures in 1967, though, the only option for night photography without a tripod was “pushing” 400 ASA film and using specialized developers. While what was essentially un...
This competition is now closed for entries.
You can view all of the International winners here and see all of the finalists in our competition gallery
Welcome to our 2017 black and white film student photography competition 'Lyrically Speaking'.
Please click on the relevant link below to download the entry pack for your country. This includes posters, the brief, entry labels and the terms and conditions.
Argentina
Hong Kong
Kong Kong (English)
Italy
Philippines
Por...
ILFORD monochrome equipment manuals
From time to time, customers ask us for copies of manuals for ILFORD Monochrome equipment.
Whilst we are no longer able to directly offer service and maintenance support for discontinued equipment, we are still happy to supply (in pdf format) the manuals listed below.
*Please get in touch for manuals marked with an asterisk
FP40 Film Processor
Full operations manual - English
Leader Card specification
Full operations manual - German
Full Service Manual -...
Please refer to the American MSDS page for those not yet available here
2000RT Machine Paper Developer
2000RT Fixer-Replenisher
2150XL Film Developer
2150XL Fixer
Bromophen Developer Part A
Bromophen Developer Part B
HARMAN Selenium Toner
HARMAN Warmtone Paper Developer
Hypam Rapid Fixer
ID11 Developer Part A
ID11 Developer Part B
Ilfosol 3 Film Developer
Ilfostop
Ilfotec DD Film Developer
Ilfotec DD-X Film Developer
Ilfotec DD Starter
Ilfotec HC Develope...
HARMAN Lab - The new name for ILFORD Lab Direct
We have updated the name of our award winning Lab service to HARMAN Lab.
The new name reflects our desire to give more recognition to the "HARMAN*" brand, and presents opportunities to further broaden our lab service offerings in the future.
We still offer the same high-quality film processing and real Black and White prints as we've always done. Using ILFORD Photo Papers and Chemistry throughout.
Operating from our factory site in Mobberley, C...
A family of photographers
It’s difficult for me to imagine my family members without their cameras. I grew up in a family of photographers. This seemed so natural to me, that, as a child, I thought all my friends at school had photo labs at their grandparents’ house. For years, underneath my bed, sat my great grandfather’s wooden photographic chamber, along with its imposing tripod.
Ilford FP4 Plus / Hasselblad 500CM / Sonnar 150mm
Fujifilm Acros 100 / Hasselblad 500CM / Distagon 50mm
&nbs...
Earlier this year we agreed to take part in @EMULSIVEfilm community interviews and these are the results.
Over to you #EMULSIVE
Back in mid-May 2016, we invited you all to submit your questions to Ilford Photo for the second in a new series of community interviews here on #EMULSIVE. As with the first, the premise is simple: we collect questions from you, the film photography community, package them up and then work with the interview subject to get them answered and published.
Well, we’...
A black and white film community
Since film is no longer the primary domain of professionals, it’s been adopted again in earnest by passionate individuals that produce legitimate work. In this age of instant gratification, infinite dynamic range, and auto-everything, it’s nice to rely on a predictable and high-quality medium.
I shoot HP5+ almost exclusively. It’s everything I want in a black and white film. It’s flexible, widely available and fits right into my workflow. I’ve played both...
A little background
I was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. My chosen field of study was production engineering, but was I taking photography classes in the evenings and began working for a super cool magazine called Urbe, which is a bit like what Vice is in the UK now. I quickly became the chief photographer shooting all kinds of amazing and interesting people, and it was then that I knew that this is what I wanted to do with my life. Looking back it was quite an interesting time - I’d be learnin...
Potential Disruption To Product Supply In The US
On Friday August 25th the US distributor of HARMAN technology products (WYNIT) suddenly and unexpectedly halted its distribution activities. This affected our products (branded ILFORD Photo, Kentmere and HARMAN, as well as for Paterson and Agfa color film products). On September 8th, WYNIT subsequently entered Chapter 11 proceedings.
Throughout September we have implemented a direct supply arrangement for retailers in the USA, as an interim measure, to...