Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:54 PM 14/8/98 -0600, you wrote: >>> Well, I am an Ilford fanatic, too, but they are both part of a rather >>> large >>> corporate conglomerate, and they produce a number of colour products, >>> including Ilfochrome and Ilfocolor products. >>> >> >>I'm convieniently forgetting that for the time being, so that I can kid >>myself that I'm favouring the underdog... ;-) > >IMHO Ilford is the underdawg it two respects only: (1) they are not as well >known as 'yellow box' and (2) they are British, or at least European and >are thus perhaps inferior by some folks standards. > >I've used quite a bit of both and prefer Ilford film, chemicals, and paper >to their Kodak equivalents. In respect to performance I consider them >superior. > > The underdog perception of Ilford is slowly changing. They are coming up with liquid chemicals which are so easy to just dilute and use and I see no point in going back to Kodak's DA-163 and Unifix since I discovered Ilford Multigrade developer and Rapid Fixer. Weighing out those powder chemicals were such a pain since I use only a small quanitity each time I darken the darkroom. IMO, Kodak is likely to lose more of the market share. I can see that their marketing departments are quite insensitive to the changing consumer trends and demands in this part of the world. At a time when there is so much concern about photo chemicals damaging the environment, I cannot find a box of XTOL where I am staying and I have to rely on friends in the US to help ship me packs of XTOL for my personal use. Is there an Ilford equivalent to XTOL? Dan K.