Kodak announced Ektar 100, a new fine-grained, high-contrast, high-saturation, "world’s sharpest" color negative film. It’s 35mm-only, and will replace the almost cartoonishly-saturated Portra Professional Ultra Color 100UC. Availability: October 2008 in the US, beginning of November in Europe, ?? rest of the word. More info on Kodak’s Ektar 100 Q&A and in the film data [...]

Kodak UK Press Release: Kodak Introduces Enhanced PORTRA Colour Negative Films with Finer Grain, Spectacular Skin Tones, Vivid Colour and Ideal Scanning Performance – Continued Innovation Gives Pro Photographers High Quality Films to Achieve Impactful Images London, September 11 – In a move that underscores its ongoing support of the professional photography market, Eastman Kodak [...]

Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape has written a typically lucid article on soft proofing: Soft proofing is simply a mechanism that allows you to view on your computer monitor what your print will look like when it is on paper. A specific paper. That paper and ink combination has been defined by the profile [...]

Wilhelm Research has released their book, The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures, by Henry Wilhelm with contributing author Carol Brower—originally published in 1993—as a free, downloadable PDF. You can get the individual chapters here at Wilhelm Research’s site, or from this direct link [...]