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4 unusual facts about Ilford Photo


Dave Butcher

Printing and archival processing is done in his own darkroom by hand using Ilford Multigrade FB papers.

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Dave Butcher's preferred equipment is the medium format Mamiya 7 camera using Ilford FP4 120 film.

Douglas Webb

Before the war he worked for Ilford and then as a printer with the London News Agency in Fleet Street.

Polaroid Corporation

He - teamed with André Bosman, a former head of film production in the large Polaroid film factory at Enschede - designed a plan to redesign the SX-70/600 film system in collaboration with Ilford Photo, and convinced the Polaroid owners to participate.


135 film

Ilford at one time made HP5 black-and-white film on a thin polyester base, which allowed 72 exposures in a single cassette.


see also

FP4

FP4 plus, a black-and-white photographic film by Ilford Photo, latest version being called FP4 Plus or FP4+