Ilfochrome

The positive paper Ilfochrome ( formerly Cibachrome ) is a photo of Ilford paper for the production of positive images of slides.

History

Ilfochrome was developed in the 1960s by Ciba- Geigy as Cibachrome. As Ilford, the company bought out a few years later, one Ilfochrome further developed under their direction, and with a new brand name. The end of 2011, the Company announced to set large parts of the product line, due to decreasing demand and higher raw material prices.

Technology

In this method, the slide must be exposed only on positive paper and then developed in a special process in a developing drum. The Ilfochromeprozess P-3 differs from the normal RA-4 process for color images. It is less durable and more expensive, which is why it is not used as well as in commercial labs. This scan now prefer the slides and print then back to normal photographic paper. Despite the high costs, provide Ilfochrome papers images of excellent color brilliance and lightfastness. This paper is often used by photographers who want to exhibit their photographs.

Ilfochrome saves tedious tasks such as copying on negative film to this eventually auszubelichten to normal color paper and evolve. Through these steps would result inevitably a significant loss of quality, because each film is sensitized something different.