Ilford has dis­con­tin­ued two very unique prod­ucts: SFX 200 film and their B&W post­card paper. Rumor has it that PAN F 50 film is going to be next unless it starts sell­ing better.

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, shoot more Ilford PAN F! This is one of the great­est films ever made. With the recent dis­con­tin­u­a­tion of Kodak Tech­ni­cal Pan, this genre of what I call “tri­pod films” will be dead. Unlike most other indus­tries, the pro­duc­tion of pho­to­graphic film is highly spe­cial­ized and founded on trade secrets. So once a prod­uct is dis­con­tin­ued, it will never be pos­si­ble for any­one to make it again.

This infor­ma­tion is pro­vided cour­tesy of Ilford’s North­east sales man­ager, whose recent pro­mo­tion from “Mass­a­chu­setts” to “North­east” was made pos­si­ble by the laying-off of the rep­re­sen­ta­tives from every other state in New England.