founded 1879 headquarters knutsford cheshire products film paper chemicals website www.ilfordphoto.com ilford pan f black & white film ilford photo is a manufacturer of photographic materials known worldwide for its black and white film and papers and chemicals as previously as its range of ilfochrome and ilfocolor colour printing materials before these were discontinued . ilfochrome was formerly called cibachrome developed in partnership with the swiss company ciba geigy . formerly it published the ilford manual of photography a comprehensive manual of everything photographic including the optics physics and chemistry of photography along with recipes for many developers . contents 1 history 1.1 cameras 2 products 2.1 film 2.2 film developers 2.3 specialist products 2.4 cameras 2.5 paper 2.6 paper developers 2.7 fixers toners and other chemicals 3 xp2 super development 4 lab services 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit logo of ilford ltd. from 1930s the company was founded in 1879 by alfred hugh harman as the britannia works company . 1 initially making photographic plates it grew to occupy a large site in the centre of ilford . in 1902 it took the name of the town to become ilford limited despite the objections of the local council . 2 in 1983 their uk headquarters was moved to mobberley cheshire . in 1989 ilford was acquired by the usa based international paper company also owners of graphic arts materials manufacturer anitec . the two companies were merged in 1990 to become ilford anitec . in 1996 the sales and administration offices were also moved from london to mobberley . in 2004 the company went into receivership . the uk site was subject to a management buyout which resulted in the formation of harman technology ltd in february 2005 . the company now traded as ilford photo produces high quality monochrome photographic products . the swiss part of the company was bought by the oji paper company of japan in july 2005 and by paradigm global partners llp in may 2010 . it produced inkjet products and high quality colour photographic products under the name ilford imaging switzerland gmbh before being declared bankrupt on 9 december 2013 . 3 on 14 september 2015 ilford photo announced that harman technology was acquired by pemberstone ventures limited for an undisclosed amount . 4 cameras edit ilford sold a number of cameras under its own name but made for it by other manufacturers starting with a box camera in 1902 but most were made in the 1940s and 50s . the ilford witness was a rangefinder with interchangeable lenses announced in 1947 but not released until 1953 because of manufacturing difficulties . in the meantime the simpler advocate series 1 was released in 1949 and series 2 in 1952 . a pre release advocate series 1 camera was given to princess elizabeth in 1948 . it was stolen but later recovered when it was sent to be repaired . also released in 1949 was the craftsman a twin lens reflex tlr which took 120 or 620 film . then 1951 saw the prentice folding camera which also took 120 film . in 1957 ilford released the sportsman a relabelled west german dacora dignette as a lightly built and cheap 35 mm camera to compete with the better made and more expensive kodak retinette . in germany a comparative dignette was about half the price of a retinette both coming from the stuttgart black forest area . the sportsman became a series of camera models produced over the following 10 years . finally in 1958 ilford released the monobar a monorail camera manufactured by kennedy instruments with a 35 mm back that resembled the earlier advocate camera which ki had also manufactured . the monobar allowed the front lens and rear film plane of the camera to be moved and rotated bringing the scheimpflug principle to the 35mm world . products edit film edit some ilford black and white films near infrared photograph taken with ilford sfx 200 film pan f plus 50 extremely fine grain 5 fp4 plus 125 hp5 plus 400 delta 100 400 and 3200 xp2 super 400 sfx 200 ilford pan 100 and 400 consumer grade on selected markets film developers edit ilford id 11 ilfosol 3 ilfotec dd dd x hc lc 29 and rt rapid microphen perceptol phenisol specialist products edit surveillance film traffic surveillance film nuclear emulsions ortho copy plus q plates process control cameras edit harman titan pinhole camera ilford obscura pinhole camera hp5 single use camera xp2 single use camera paper edit graded ilfospeed rc deluxe ilfobrom galerie fb variable contrast multigrade iv rc deluxe multigrade iv rc portfolio multigrade rc cooltone multigrade rc warmtone multigrade rc express multigrade fb classic replaces multigrade iv fb dec 2013 multigrade fb warmtone multigrade fb art multigrade fb cooltone new product dec 2013 digital panchromatic ilfospeed rc digital galerie fb digital direct positive harman direct positive fb glossy harman direct positive rc glossy & luster paper developers edit bromophen harman warmtone developer ilford 2150 xl and 2000 rt multigrade developer pq universal fixers toners and other chemicals edit hypam fixer ilford 2000 rt fixer and rapid fixer ilfostop ilfotol wetting agent ilford washaid harman selenium toner xp2 super development edit unlike most other black and white films xp2 super can be processed in the same chemicals as colour print film colour c41 process . it produces a monochrome black & white negative despite the development process . 6 7 8 lab services edit in january 2008 the ilford process and print service formerly ilford premium direct was brought in house to the manufacturing site in mobberley cheshire uk . the following year ilford photo re launched the in house black and white lab service as ilford lab direct . the mail order service offers black and white film processing and silver gelatin printing from film or from digital files . the launch saw the introduction of a dedicated website www.ilfordlab.com . the service has continued to expand offering medium and large format processing and digital black and white lightjet prints . in 2009 ilford lab direct was awarded a gold award by digital photo magazine best online black and white printer . in august 2013 ilford lab direct us was launched operating from california us and offering a similar service to the uk operation . see also edit photographic film and list of photographic films photographic paper darkroom references edit r j hercock and g a jones 1979 silver by the ton . a history of ilford ltd 1879 1979 london mcgraw hill book company uk ltd 1979 . ilford timeline . ilford history and chronology . retrieved 2008 07 27 . la faillite d ilford imaging a t prononc e in french . 20 minutes . retrieved 10 12 2013 . check date values in access date help iford photo press room . www.ilfordphoto.com . retrieved 2015 09 18 . http www.ilfordphoto.com webfiles 20131021134532242.pdf ilford xp2 . ilford . retrieved 2012 03 22 . boots xp2 . boots . jessops . jessops . external links edit ilford 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