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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:Other people make it... by SPY_jmr1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Papaer? No *wonder* it was cheaper... You buy TV's from Magnetbox, Panaphonics and Sorny, doncha? ;-)

  2. Re:Image editing.. by aug24 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I remember back in the 1930s when, just for old time's sake, we would dissolve our own salts and make our own paper. Just wasn't the same when we bought it.

    Times move on, nobody /prohibits/ anything like this so it's just economics of scale. You'll still be able to buy your pogo stick / print paper, just at a different price to reflect how few people use it.

    Justin.

    --
    You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
  3. Re:Digital isn't always better by hawk · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's what she thinks.

    Once someone gets over 150, you can hand them *anything* (say, a paper plate), and he'll believe that it's an excellent print :)

    hawk