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Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper

Posted by Zonk on from the end-of-an-era dept.

Swirsky writes "For those of us who remember spending quality time in a dark room with Kodak Rapid RC paper and a bottle of Dektol, here's some bad news - Kodak will stop making black and white photographic paper. Black and white photo work (especially because you can use a safelight!) is a wonderful way of introducing someone to photography. I guess if we want to do it, we'll have to use home-made emulsions on paper. As a pro photographer, I'm bothered by this, though admittedly I haven't done b/w darkroom work in years."

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  1. Duh by koreaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Black and white pr0n sucks. And we all know pr0n is the only useful application of photography.

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    1. Re:Duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      In "you-know-where", pr0n sucks YOU.

      Ewww :-(

  2. It's called change by orangeguru · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well another pre-press and printing technology gone. so what? I will never miss the chemicals and different kind of paper.

    Anyone miss Lithography ... or cave painting?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithograph

  3. Re:Who cares .... by rylin · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know.. mentioning an enlarger in a closet, tongs and gloves is a surefire way to make people look at you in an odd light

  4. When Black Runs Out... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even with colored paper, the black crayon is usually the first color to run out. Then I have to use the purple crayon to finish drawing Bruce Wayne's "other" car.

  5. Re:It's about time by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    "There is no reason for black and white anything today" - You insensitive clod. You obviously have no eye for art and no feelings for Penguins, Zebras, Pandas and other monochromatic life forms.

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  6. Re:Kodak... by The+Spoonman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess they're really heavily banking on digital

    As someone who lives in Kodak's home town and has worked at the place, I can tell you that's probably not the reason. Much more likely than not, the manager in charge of B&W paper probably ate the lunch of the manager in charge of "digital stuff" and the digital guy convinced the senior managers to eliminate the other's division.

    I joke, of course. Kodak's core decisions are usually based on less rational reasons than the one I gave...

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