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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. Take your prefered pixelbased graphic program... by TransEurope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...load the image from the digicam down an then make:
    [Image] -> [Mode]-> [Grayscale]
    Et Voila! Very artistic!

  2. Re:Digital? by PakProtector · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Say no to software patents!
    Say no to Bolkestein!
    Say no to the constitution!

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  3. Black and white? by Nuffsaid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now, I understand someone could miss Kodak white photo paper, but what is one supposed to do with black paper? Nobody will miss that!

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