Ilford: Film Formats Explainer

Ilford Photo has a short video that introduces the three major film formats that it sells and some of the features of each format. Ilford is one of the major providers of B&W film today, providing Ilford and Kentmere branded film, papers and Ilford chemistry.

Tim Layton Fine Art: Preparing Glass Plates

Tim Layton of Tim Layton Fine Art shows how to prepare glass plates before use.  Whether for preparing the plate for hand coating printing paper, hand coating a dry plate or any other use for glass plate in the darkroom, Tim shows how to make the glass safe for handling.

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35mmc: Reversal Processing of B&W at Home

Well, if you haven't seen the need for a beautiful B&W chrome, a monchrome slide, then read no further.  For those who want to know the simple steps to process your favorite B&W film into slides, read on.  Larger formats, such as medium format, or imagine an 8x10 slide, can be viewed on a light table or sketching tablet with the naked eye.

First, credit to 35mmc for the article, Fomapan 200 Slides, which brought this technique to light.  With just a quick googling for the prime ingredients, and the following recipe is listed:  Roll Reversal Safe Alternative, by fellow Blogspotter, Mektar Polypan.

Just add two common household ingredients to your B&W processing to bleach, followed by exposing the film to light and a second development step.  Simple!  Your Blogger will be trying this formula to see what can be achieved.