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Adventures in year-old DIY C-41 chemistry

Posted April 25, 2007 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Extra Geeky + Technique

See what happens when alspix—the man who brought us the now-legendary matchbox pinhole camera—processes film in year-old, over-used C-41 colour negative chemistry from a DIY kit. The results are surprising!
Read about it at Alspix Stuff.
He used this Nova C-41 kit, which is available in the UK. For those in the US, check out the [...]

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Ilford announce new selenium toner

Posted March 15, 2006 in Product News

Ilford Photo press release:
Extending darkroom options on printing black-and-white images to further levels of artistry is a new selenium toner from ILFORD Photo.
One of the major benefits of using silver photography, and processing prints in chemistry baths, is the degree of control which can be exerted on the finished product. This is never more obvious [...]

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Review and samples of Ilford’s new Harman Cool- and Warmtone print developers

Posted March 3, 2006 in Product News

Silverprint have done a quick review of Ilford’s new Harman Cooltone and Warmtone B&W paper developers.
According to Silverprint, "Having now had a chance to lab test the new Ilford Warmtone and Coldtone developers, we can state categorically they are the most effective specialised print developers ever placed on the market."
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Agfa chemistry, including Rodinal, is back!

Posted March 2, 2006 in Product News

From Silverprint News:
"As they promised, the German company a&o, who aquired Agfa’s chemical range after the dissolution of AgfaPhoto, have lost no time in relaunching the range onto the market . All products are available apart from one or two of the more esoteric ones, Viradon toner and Sistan image stabiliser, and these are unlikely [...]

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