Used Ilford for Sale

Ilford began in 1879 when Peckham portrait photographer Alfred Hugh Harman tired of unreliable plates and started hand-coating his own Britannia Dry Plates in the front room of his Ilford, Essex home. That artisan frustration grew into the Britannia Works, soon renamed for its village. Ilford never chased camera dominance - it became famous as the conscience of black-and-white, the maker of iconic emulsions like HP5, FP4, Pan F and Multigrade paper that defined the darkroom. For collectors, Ilford cameras are the rare exception: the precision Witness rangefinder, the simple Sprite 35 and German-built Sportsman series are beloved oddities.