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Ilford Ultra-Large Film, '08 Campaign Harman Technology are once again producing runs of special sizes in sheet films, with a choice of FP4 or HP5. As last year, orders must be placed with us by 30'th of June, and would be shipped by Friday August 8'th, so we would expect to have the orders available by the week commencing August 11'th. The only proviso is that Harman may opt not to make a particular film/size if there are insufficient orders to produce the item viably. Prices are shown without VAT. Film is in boxes of 25 sheets, packed as normal with triple interleaved boxes and the film in black plastic. |
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InkAID in Stock The equivalent of self-coating emulsion is now available to the ink-jet based photographer, going under the name of ‘Inkaid’, and produced by the Ontario Special Coatings Corporation. Designed for photographers and printers who want to use their own choice of material, Inkaid converts a wide choice of base support into a satisfactory inkjet print material. |
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The same properties are provided as in commercial inkjet materials, those of controlling the size of the inkjet dot, adhering the water-based ink to the substrate, and speeding the drying time. Since the ink doesn't soak into the paper, the image is considerably more vibrant. Painting, collages and other mixed media can also be coated to allow the addition of an inkjet printed image to the composition. See InkAID |
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POLAROID - END OF AN ERA Even Polaroid's own website confirms that manufacture of the wide variety of Polaroid instant films is winding up during 2008. The last coating of the professional pack films are taking place in the first months of the year, and with normal consumption turnaround will have reached their final rest in the market place by the end of the year. The saddest aspect of this is the loss of the largest part of the legacy of Edwin Land. In a life combining ferocious scientific research with extraordinary entrepreneurial genius Land altered the photographic landscape in all areas from artistic to industrial. |
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From the first sepia black and white peel-apart in 1948, through the intensive effort to move this forward into peel-apart colour, Land rode a wave of innovation coupled with successful marketing that made Polaroid a household name. Originally set up to market Land's polarising screen material, the pinnacle was achieved in 1972 with the successful placement of SX70, the first fully encapsulated one-step colour print material. The success of instant photography paved the way for the takeup of the digital chip into imaging territory, and Land's major failure, the launch of Polavision in 1978 signalled the start of this crossover. Polavision was an 8mm additive cine process, which had to be processed within it's viewer. The film & equipment was expensive, the film could not be edited, and there was no sound capability. Polavision completely bombed, and out of 200,000 sets manufactured, maybe only 60,000 were sold, into a marketplace which was just starting to receive VHS video equipment. Land was asked to leave his own company. The wave that had carried Polaroid for decades was beginning to subside, and by the time Land died in 1991 Intel was starting to use his own techniques for achieving supremecy in microprocessor chip-building. So this year clean the rollers in your Polaroid back, and shoot some frames of Polaroid film, in salutation to the passing of the work of Edwin Land - a scientist & entrepreneur who probably did more in one life to wrest the seemingly impossible from the remarkable silver halides than any other innovator in the history of photography. |
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Biography of Edwin Land; 'Insisting on the Impossible', Victor K McElheny |
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BJP now stocked The British Journal of Photography, not always easy to find in the newsagent. It wasn't that easy becoming a stockist either, but we now have a regular pile on the counter, or if you want a one-off with an order please ask. The price is currently £2.10 per copy.NB The cover featured is an image by Vanessa Winship, winner of first place in the Portrait Series category of this year's World Press Photo awards, the most celebrated competition of its kind. Vanessa at one time worked here at Silverprint, is fondly remembered, (& we hope some of it rubbed off on us!) |
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New Pinhole Book 'Pinhole Photography, The Art and Practice' is a new self published title from Derek Reay featuring a vast collection of his work in monochrome and colour. It works both as a stimulating collection of images, as well as containing a wealth of practical information.Priced at a very reasonable £14.95, & now in stock. |
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Ferric Oxalate in Stock This won't mean much to most people. Ferric Oxalate is the required sensitiser for both traditional Platinotype, as well as Kallitype. For a long time the only real source for this chemical has been the US alternative specialist Bostick & Sullivan, who manufacture their own pure and fresh stocks, at an economic price. With their greatly appreciated help we are now importing this from them, and will endeavour to maintain constant stock. Prices are equivalent to the B&S rates, (link) and will avoid the excessive carriage & duty entailed when buying small quantities direct. |
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FINAL CLEARANCE ALL FORTE PAPERS !!! SALE - ALL REMAINING STOCK OF THE GRADED WARMTONE IS NOW HALF PRICE (FROM 5/9/07) LOTS of gaps in the range now, please check with us |
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NEW SIZE MULTIGRADE FB ROLL! After nagging Ilford/Harman for some time we have finally got the go-ahead to produce a 50.8cm x 10m (20" x 33') fibre-based Multigrade roll, which will be in glossy, double weight. This was available some years ago as a special order stock line, and was popular particularly with students, where it provides a convenient way of producing large FB prints without breaking the bank. The old Ilford company knocked it on the head, but the new, young, forward thinking, dynamic management have re-instated it. (That's enough grovelling - Ed) The price is 39.24 + VAT (£46.11) and they are now in stock. |
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NEW FOMA PRODUCTS The photographic powerhouse FOMA in the Czech Republic has an extensive range, and we are trying to push up our stockholding to include many of the more specialist items in the range. Lately taken into stock; Rolls of Fomatone chlorobromide paper, in glossy, matt & chamois, 108cm (43") x 10m lengths
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FORTE INKJET CLEAROUT Clearance prices on small sheet sizes of Forte Special Matt inkjet paper; 10.5 x 14.8cm (4.2x5.9") 100sh - £4.00 This is the heavyweight special matt, a smooth white dead matt finish in a robust weight - these smaller sheet sizes now deleted, get them while they last! |
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NEW range of Ethol Chemicals |
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NEW range of FOMA Chemicals |
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Angus McBean The often astounding work over many decades of the theatrical photographer Angus McBean is again being re-evaluated with retrospective exhibitions, and the publication of a detailed biography. Although McBean had a resurgence of photographic activity towards the end of his life, for many retirement years he worked on his Elizabethan house, Flemings Hall, restoring it from a shell into into a glorious home. This was recorded by McBean himself in an article he wrote and illustrated for 'Homes & Gardens' magazine in March 1977. As our own tribute, it is here in downloadable PDF format. The size is quite large (10MB) so give it a while on broadband, and don't even think about it on a dial-up. |
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FOMA 532 & 542 Papers No More This paper uses the same base as the deleted kentmere Art Classic - Foma's stock of the base lasted longer than that of Kentmere, but has now run out and we the last coating was made some time ago. We still have reasonable stock of the more creamy 542, but at time of writing, early Feb '08, the 532 has gone. Lines still available are shown in Foma Paper.
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