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 [...]

Matt Callow made this print with a truly convoluted paper negative/internegative printing process, which you can read about here. Looks like a pain in the ass, but the result speaks for itself.

Solarization is overexposure to the point of tonal reversal, where areas on the film that would be totally black (the sun, for example) start to get lighter again. You can achieve the same thing printing in the darkroom by turning on the lights during developing. (Technically doing it in camera is called soliarization and in [...]

A company called ZINK have just introduced a photo printing system that doesn’t use ink or ribbons. It’s basically a colour thermal printer that activates heat-reactive crystals in their paper. ZINK Imaging Press Release: Enabling Printing Where It Has Never Before Been Possible ZINK Imaging has unveiled a new way for consumers to print and [...]

Tim Haynes writes: I was looking for a cheap and convenient way to make small enlargement prints, particularly from 5×4″ black and white negatives, but without the expense of buying a proper large-format enlarger (to say nothing of the space such a thing would occupy). Does that sound like you? Sounds like me! Check out [...]

Photographer Sean Rohde dug up and scanned a bunch of his darkroom experiments from the late 80s and early 90s. There are heaps of images along with explanations of how each was done. He writes: Way back when, from 1988 to around 1992, I actually had a full darkroom. I currently just develop my own [...]

From the AlternativePhotography.com newsletter: For all those of you who wants to know the ins and outs of the chrysotype process, here are two invaluable books from Dr. Mike Ware. As usual, thoroughly researched, they offer the first published monographs detailing the use of pure gold in photographic imaging. Gold in Photography and The Chrysotype [...]

HARMAN Technology Limited Press Release: Harman, the leading professional imaging specialist has provided the first ever glimpse of its new professional photo inkjet paper, just days before officially unveiling the products to the industry at the Photokina exhibition in Cologne, Germany. This exclusive shot of the product and its packaging has only been distributed to [...]

Check out this contact printing with blueprint (diazo) paper and Windex window cleaner tutorial by Mark Gutierrez. Cool results, no darkroom or enlarger required, dead easy! Read instructions at Instructables Thanks to Seth for the heads-up! Photo by Mark Gutierrez, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license

Ilford Photo press release: Having long established its reputation for the production of market-leading black-and-white photographic paper, ILFORD Photo has now taken the whole genre onto a new level of archival and presentational excellence with the fusion of modern digital technology and true silver gelatine printing. ILFORD Photo has announced the addition of a new [...]