ILFOCOLOR (not ILFOTONE) color film?!?!?! What's going on here?

[pbromaghin]

Ilford color? I just stumbled on this at B&H:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1845904-REG/ilford_2005227_ilfocolor_400_iso_vintage.html

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1878571-REG/ilford_2005226_ilfocolor_vintage_tone_400.html

Weird that a search for “Ilfotone” brings up nothing. No 120 either.

 

[Ian Grant]

It's not a Harman product. When Ilford UK went into voluntary administration some years ago Ilford Switzerland the former Tellko/Ciba factory traded separately, before going bankrupt. The Ilford name had been licenced back to Harman for B&W products. The liquidators in Switzerland sold the Ilford trade name and these films are repacked and sold as Ilfocolor, gy a German company.

Ian

 

[koraks]

Weird that a search for “Ilfotone” brings up nothing.

Well, the product is marketed as "Ilfocolor Vintage Tone". Where did "Ilfotone" come from?

Anyway, this keeps popping up every two months or so. It's confusing, alright. As explained above, there's Ilford and there's Ilford. Not the same thing...

 

[Agulliver]

It's a shame because at present the colour Ilford products (from the non-Harman company) might confuse people. But that's the way things are with different entities having the rights to use the Ilford name on different kinds of product. Always remember that Harman has the license to use the Ilford name on B&W film, papers and "traditional" darkroom products (chemistry, the dark tent etc). the "other" Ilford handles inkjet papers, and colour films with the Ilford name on them....which are sourced elsewhere.

This is why the Harman name appears on the Phoenix film, because they don't have the rights to call it "Ilford". Though as it's still very much experimental, that's not a bad thing.

 

[MattKing]

This is the entity that is responsible for the product.

Where did "Ilfotone" come from?

I'll edit the thread title.

 

[pbromaghin]

Well, the product is marketed as "Ilfocolor Vintage Tone". Where did "Ilfotone" come from?

Anyway, this keeps popping up every two months or so. It's confusing, alright. As explained above, there's Ilford and there's Ilford. Not the same thing...

Ilfotone came from my half-asleep brain which also forgot we’ve been through this a few Times before.

 

[koraks]

Oh, I see; I thought I'd missed something. It would not have surprised me if they'd called it that.

 

[Ten301]

In any event, the Ilfocolor Vintage Tone 400, at least from the examples I’ve seen online, looks very much like repackaged Orwo NC500.