It’s coming back, maybe in August [2008]! ADOX says: The Emulsions for this paper are being produced on the original Agfa machinery which ADOX purchased together with former Agfa engineers from the liquidator of AgfaPhoto in Leverkusen. They are identical in all measurable parameters with the papers formerly sold by Agfa under the “Agfa Multicontrast [...]

Ever wonder what happens when you push Kodak T-Max 100 black and white film five stops to ISO 3200? Me too!   Justin   Garden Secrets 120 film developed in Kodak TMAX developer for 16 min @ 24°C/75°F. (I shot these about two years ago but I’m posting them now. Go figure.)

You can read the complete press release, but the highlights are: It’s the "world’s sharpest" and "finest-grained" ISO 400 B&W film. Pushable 2 stops up to ISO 1600. Availability "will occur on a stock-turnover basis, beginning in December 2007". The new film code will be TMY-2. There’s a surprisingly informative Q&A sheet (PDF) about the [...]

This might be the most complete tutorial I’ve come across on developing black and white film with coffee (yes, it really works!). In addition to the recipe, it’s got pictures of every step, including the final results. Check it out at Photo Utopia!

Kodak have two US-only film rebates going on: $20 rebate on $125 or more of their pro colour Portra range. Good until 30 June, 2007. Download coupon/form PDF. $5 rebate on five or more rolls of their pro black and white range range (T-Max 100, 400, and 3200, Plus-X 125, Tri-X 400 (320 isn’t mentioned), [...]

Luke Healey has posted another Diafine EI test (see his previous test of Tri-X), this time of Fomapan 100. Check it out in his photostream at Flickr (larger version available there). If you’re not familiar with Diafine developer, it’s got several magical properties: it’s a split-bath compensating developer, so it’s difficult to get blocked shadows [...]

As many of our customers know we have spent the last few months looking at how to best provide as many film choices as possible. We have looked at many ways to bring new films to the market. This includes plans going forward right now to operate our own coating facility and producing high quality [...]

In May, I re-posted Oran Grad’s post from The Online Photographer about a high-speed, ISO 24,000 black and white reversal (slide) film that Kodak’s research department came up with and was quite excited about its implications for pinhole and zone plate photography. Unfortunately, it appears that there wasn’t enough interest and they will not be offering the film commercially.

Yesterday, I posted (well, lifted Oren Grad’s post from The Online Photographer) about an ultra high-speed ISO 24,000 B&W reversal film emulsion that Kodak have developed, but one implication didn’t hit me until today: if released commercially, it would allow handheld pinhole photography at normal shutter speeds.

Oren Grad’s entire post from The Online Photographer: No, that’s not a typo. This week at the International Congress of Imaging Science in Rochester, NY, Kodak researchers presented a new silver halide emulsion that is thermally developed to produce a positive image at speeds of up to ISO 24,000. You can read the conference abstract [...]