List of discontinued photographic films
Adox was a German camera and film brand of Fotowerke Dr. C. Schleussner GmbH of Frankfurt am Main, the world's first photographic materials manufacturer.
Agfa AG (Leverkusen), which saw major investment post war in 1952 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer, subsequently merged with Gevaert based in Mortsel, Belgium, in 1964 to form Agfa-Gevaert with Bayer subsequently acquiring full ownership of the merged company.
The consumer film division was spun off into a new company AgfaPhoto in 2004 in a management buyout, a time of significant challenges to the traditional film market with the rapid rise of digital photography, resulting in bankruptcy in 7 months, and the closure of the Leverkusen plant in 2005.
The holding company was unaffected and retains a trademark license from Agfa-Gevaert for the use of the AgfaPhoto brand and 'red dot' logo on products having a photographic application.
Ferrania itself closed in 2009 and so Lupus procured replacement Agfa Photo branded films from Fujifilm (colour) and Harman/Ilford (black and white).
[20] Azomureș or AZO, produced by Târgu-Mureș Nitrogenous Fertilizer Plant, was the photographic brand of Romania since the 1981.
The photosensitive materials plant in Târgu Mureș, a city in northern Romania, covering an area of about 7 hectares.
The plant was designed by Japan's Fujitsu to withstand a 9.4 degree earthquake on the Richter scale, consequently due to high cost of demolition the company decided to use the buildings to host cultural events and the photosensitive materials plant was re-opened for this purpose in May 2016.
Fotokemika d.d acquired the rights to the ADOX film recipes and the production machinery from owners Dupont in the 1970s.
The films were also sold by Fotoimpex (Berlin, Germany) under the original ADOX brand name after they acquired the rights to this in 2003.
Kodak China acquired an 80% share of their assets in 1998 and reputedly invested in a color film line.
Examples include; Fortecolor film (also supplied by Konica), the Boots UK pharmacy chain color negative products from ca.
Ferrania Technology continues to produce chemicals for medical use and solar panels on part of the original factory complex whilst the film plant was demolished.
In 1995 Fotochema was privatised and underwent a substantial change in manufacturing plan and focused solely on black and white photographic materials.
FOTOIMPEX of Berlin, Germany, is a company founded in 1992 to import photographic films and papers from the former Eastern Bloc.
[42] Bydgoskie Photochemical works was acquired by Foma Bohemia in 1997 but due to decline of the traditional film market was declared bankrupt in 2007.
(The other main colour film producers; Konica and 3M Ferrania specialising in 'white label' consumer product).
Johannes Herzog & Co. was a German manufacturer of photographic materials: since 1988 dry plates ("Sonja EW"), B&W films (1901–1964), 1929 "Duxochrom" (sold in USA as "Colorstil“) and Roentgen X-ray filmsIlford is a UK manufacturer of photographic materials based in Mobberley, Cheshire known worldwide for its black and white films, papers and chemicals.
Following bankruptcy in 2004 it was rescued in a management buy out and is now a brand of Harman Technology Ltd trading as Ilford Photo.
[126] Kodachrome entered American popular culture with a 1973 song by Paul Simon, as well as a 2017 Hollywood movie.
Originally Konica film and paper was sold under the brand name of "Sakura" meaning Cherry Blossom in English.
In 2006, the merged company closed down its photo imaging division, which produced color film, color paper, photo chemicals and digital minilab machines (at the time it was the 3rd largest film producer behind Kodak and Fujifilm, AgfaPhoto having collapsed a year earlier).
is a small European analogue photographic company based in Austria that produces a range of 'creative' 35mm format films under both 'Kono!'
films are based on stock originally intended for shooting motion pictures, scientific purposes or other places photosensitive emulsions were used.
[citation needed] In 2017 Luckyfilm, an offshoot of Lucky Group re-released an improved black and white film for the consumer market, however this had ceased to be available by 2019.
Polaroid Corporation's brand and intellectual property were acquired by Impossible Project's largest shareholder in 2017 and the company was later renamed 'Polaroid Originals' before becoming 'Polaroid' in 2020.
[164] SPUR (Speed Photography & Ultra high Resolution) is a supplier of own brand specialist photochemistry and films based in Langerwehe, Germany.
Colour film was made with equipment dismantled from the Agfa-Wolfen Factory after World War II.
[172] A decade prior to the plant's closure a small group of Svema employees had founded Astrum holdings in a rented building on the site in 1995, buying bulk film from various sources which they converted and packaged, for retail sale.
The name “Tasma” is derived from the Russian phrase «Татарские светочувствительные материалы» “TAtarskie Sveto MAterialiy.” – “TAtar Sensitized Materials;”it was adopted by the company in 1974.
