For more than a century, Harman built its name on Ilford black-and-white film, and built it well. For 145 years, that was the company’s language: silver, grain, contrast, consistency, and a reputation that photographers trusted without question. That is exactly why its move into color feels so significant, just at the point when color film is back in fashion and is becoming harder to find.
This was not a brand casually branching out into a fashionable niche, but a company with deep roots in one discipline deciding to take on one of analog photography’s hardest technical challenges in full view of an increasingly passionate film-shooting community.
