Ilfochrome
The positive paper Ilfochrome (formerly also Cibachrome ) is a photo paper from Ilford for the production of positive images from slides .
history
Ilfochrome was developed by Ciba-Geigy as Cibachrome in the 1960s . When Ilford bought the company a few years later, Ilfochrome was further developed under its own direction and with a new brand name. At the end of 2011, the company announced that it would discontinue large parts of the product line due to sharply falling demand and rising raw material prices.
technology
With this process, the slide only needs to be exposed on the positive paper and then developed in a special process in a developing drum. The Ilfochrome process P-3x differs from the normal RA-4 process for color images. It has a longer shelf life and is more expensive, which is why it is hardly used at all in large laboratories. They now prefer to scan the slides and then print them back on normal photo paper. Regardless of the high cost, Ilfochrome papers provide images of excellent color brilliance and lightfastness. This paper is often of photographers used that want to exhibit their photographs.
Ilfochrome saves annoying work steps such as copying onto negative film in order to then expose and develop it on normal color paper. These steps would inevitably result in a considerable loss of quality, as every film is sensitized a little differently.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The production of Ilfochrome is discontinued , Fotointern, November 24, 2011.
- ↑ The End of Ilfochrome Classic , photoscala, November 23, 2011.
- ↑ a b Ilfochrome process ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Brieke Photo Center, accessed April 20, 2012.
