![]() ![]() This means that any local mini-lab can process your film in 1 hour at moderate cost. ![]() Films like Ilford XP-2 Super, Kodak’s TCN-400and Portra 400 B&Ware designed to be processed in C41 chemistry, the same as all colour negative films. Though the technology is now a couple of decades old, according to dealers chromogenic films are enjoying a resurgence among photographers. Photographed with Leica M6 and f/4 Tri-Elmar lens on Ilford XP2 Super A large number of B&W fine art photographers have moved to digital image processing and inkjet printing, but there is a fervent group of diehards who want nothing to do with digital, and so the debate rages on. Interestingly, in recent issues of both magazines they are struggling with the issue of digital. Not quite the 250,000 of Outdoor Photographeror the 400,000 circulation of Popular Photographybut quite respectable nevertheless. In the October 2001 issue of Black & White Magazinethe editor points out that they have now been publishing for 3 years and that their readership has reached 23,000. The fact that in the current glutted state of the photographic magazine market ( particularly with so many new digitally oriented magazines), these two specialist journals appear to be surviving, is a sure sign of consumer interest. If no one buys them, and advertisers can’t be secured, magazines typically have a rapid demise. ![]() Magazines and their financial viability reflect the real-world state of reader’s interest. Black & White Magazinehas more of a fine arts orientation while Black & White Photographyhas a more general market approach. The American magazine is titled Black & White Magazinewhile the British offering is Black & White Photography. Photographed with Leica M6 and 90mm f/2 Summicron lens on Ilford Delta 100ĭuring the past two years there have appeared at least two new magazines that I am aware of devoted to B&W photography, one published in the US and one in the UK. This has become manifest in several different ways. Instead what we see is a major resurgence of interest in B&W (monochrome) photography and printing. It manifests itself though the occurrence of events that no one could have forecast based on prior developments.Īs digital image processing and inkjet printing take hold as the preferred means of processing and printing fine-art photographs, let alone consumer and hobbyist output, one would think that the days of black and white photography would be numbered. There is something called the law of unintended consequences. ![]()
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