Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper

Swirsky writes "For those of us who remember spending quality time in a dark room with Kodak Rapid RC paper and a bottle of Dektol, here's some bad news - Kodak will stop making black and white photographic paper. Black and white photo work (especially because you can use a safelight!) is a wonderful way of introducing someone to photography. I guess if we want to do it, we'll have to use home-made emulsions on paper. As a pro photographer, I'm bothered by this, though admittedly I haven't done b/w darkroom work in years."

Donations call

[Anonymous Coward]

I say we need to keep this project going. Let's start a donations round. Please PayPal $5 or more to [e-mail] to keep the black and white in the stores. If every American donates, we'll be able to keep the black and white paper running for another 18 months.

On the other hand, the whole concept seemed too racist to me when they first started selling it.

Duh

[koreaman]

Black and white pr0n sucks. And we all know pr0n is the only useful application of photography.

It's called change

[orangeguru]

Well another pre-press and printing technology gone. so what? I will never miss the chemicals and different kind of paper.

Anyone miss Lithography ... or cave painting?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithograph [wikipedia.org]

Re:Duh

[Anonymous Coward]

In "you-know-where", pr0n sucks YOU.

Ewww :-(

Re:Who cares ....

[rylin]

You know.. mentioning an enlarger in a closet, tongs and gloves is a surefire way to make people look at you in an odd light

When Black Runs Out...

[__aaclcg7560]

Even with colored paper, the black crayon is usually the first color to run out. Then I have to use the purple crayon to finish drawing Bruce Wayne's "other" car.

Re:It's about time

[TapeCutter]

"There is no reason for black and white anything today" - You insensitive clod. You obviously have no eye for art and no feelings for Penguins, Zebras, Pandas and other monochromatic life forms.

Re:Kodak...

[The Spoonman]

I guess they're really heavily banking on digital

As someone who lives in Kodak's home town and has worked at the place, I can tell you that's probably not the reason. Much more likely than not, the manager in charge of B&W paper probably ate the lunch of the manager in charge of "digital stuff" and the digital guy convinced the senior managers to eliminate the other's division.

I joke, of course. Kodak's core decisions are usually based on less rational reasons than the one I gave...