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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.

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+