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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. Re:Image editing.. by aldeng · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As a photographer, I can tell you that digital as it stands (with affordable cameras, not $20,000 rigs) has muddy contrast and when you're using an SLR like a Digital Rebel the clarity of the depth of field isn't anywhere near as good as it is on film. For B&W specifcally, shooting in monochrome on a camera is just stupid. You can make half decent digital prints just by using curves and filters, so why throw out the color info when it could look beter in color?

  2. UHH.... by shruggy1987 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!! KODAK HAS STOPPED MAKING B&W PAPERS!!!! TIME TO START MAKING MY OWN!

    Last time I checked, Kodak didn't have a monopoly on B&W photo paper (or photo anything). Try Ilford, its better paper anyways.