If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Paper negatives
I've got an old Polaroid camera that I was thinking of using for paper
negatives.Years ago I read a article in one of the photo magazines about the street photographers in Tijuana Mexico using paper negatives. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with paper negatives. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
I've done it for fun. I used a press camera and loaded the paper in film
holders. Papers are much slower than film so your exposures will be quite long. RC papers with backprints are not suitable. You want a fairly low contrast negative print with no real white areas (underexposure) and them contact print the processed and dry negative with another sheet of paper. You can even retouch the back of the paper with a pencil. (Enlarged paper negatives were an early home retouching media for "glamour" portraits.) You can also make paper negatives from slides or even negatives if you make a paper "interpositive" from the negative first. -- darkroommike ---------- "John F Boline" wrote in message ... I've got an old Polaroid camera that I was thinking of using for paper negatives.Years ago I read a article in one of the photo magazines about the street photographers in Tijuana Mexico using paper negatives. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with paper negatives. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
I've done it for fun. I used a press camera and loaded the paper in film
holders. Papers are much slower than film so your exposures will be quite long. RC papers with backprints are not suitable. You want a fairly low contrast negative print with no real white areas (underexposure) and them contact print the processed and dry negative with another sheet of paper. You can even retouch the back of the paper with a pencil. (Enlarged paper negatives were an early home retouching media for "glamour" portraits.) You can also make paper negatives from slides or even negatives if you make a paper "interpositive" from the negative first. -- darkroommike ---------- "John F Boline" wrote in message ... I've got an old Polaroid camera that I was thinking of using for paper negatives.Years ago I read a article in one of the photo magazines about the street photographers in Tijuana Mexico using paper negatives. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with paper negatives. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Paper negatives are very common with pinhole cameras. I've experimented
with 5x7 this way. With an effective ISO speed of about 6 they do not lend themselves to snapshots... If you typed "paper negatives" in to any search engine you would have found a wealth of information. Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..." ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
35mm on grade 3 explained | Michael Scarpitti | In The Darkroom | 240 | September 26th 04 02:46 AM |
How do I calibrate my photographic process | Alan Smithee | In The Darkroom | 66 | August 31st 04 04:45 PM |
What densities at which zones? | ~BitPump | Large Format Photography Equipment | 24 | August 13th 04 04:15 AM |
Kodak on Variable Film Development: NO! | Michael Scarpitti | In The Darkroom | 276 | August 12th 04 10:42 PM |
Contact Printing paper negatives | Ken Smith | In The Darkroom | 5 | February 11th 04 10:39 PM |