My first shots with direct positive paper. The two frames of connor were taken with a pentax mx, so these are tiny 35mm sized pieces of paper stuffed into the camera! One came out pretty good, the other not so good with the emulsion damage being down to my rough handling and impatience. The flower pot shot and the one of Ella were shot through my Rodenstock Clarovid. The flower pots are over exposed but the vintage tones and the vignetting are quite nice. Missed focus on Ella which is a constant source of frustration with this camera and lots of blemishes in the highlights ( not her skin lol) ..! That may have been because i opened the lens right up on this one (another reason for the missed focus) There seems to be quite literally zero latitude with this stuff so you have to get the exposure just right, the only shot that i can say i nailed exposure wise was the full frame picture of connor which i think is pretty cool. Heres the problem though, shooting like i did, one frame at a time makes it impossible out in the field, no easy way of unloading and putting new pieces of paper in the camera.... unless i were to load all of my cameras in the darkroom with pieces of paper and take them on a shoot, then i might be able to shoot about 20 frames in one session ! hmm now that could be fun. Sorry for the longwinded description but i thought someone out there might be thinking about having a go with this stuff. Hopefully this might be useful. Oh yes, also it does pay to wash the prints properly and let them dry before scanning ha ha, Ilford recommends 30minutes in running water, mine are straight out of a bucket!

8 Kommentare

  1. mike1allison
    mike1allison ·

    I did a few of these MF with Harman about 15 years ago. I still have 1/2 the box. I love shooting this way but very tedious certainly moreso in 35mm. Beautiful shot though and enticing because there is tremendous potential there.

  2. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    @mike1allison I like it in 35mm, the resolution is cut, the pictures seem a lot older. Agreed its a pain in the neck, I shot these at home so I was in and out of the darkroom. I wonder if it would be possible to create a magazine for 35mm where you could slide the individual frames out in a changing bag and another to store the exposed slices until you get back to the darkroom?

  3. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    Btw thank you!

  4. mike1allison
    mike1allison ·

    @charliedontsurf Don't laugh but I was sitting here thinking about graflex film packs and then I thought, "what about a strip" with a few exposures on it..... but maybe you could rig a 3 shot strip to the film advance and at least get a couple follow on shots... Since I was using cut film magazines, I hadn't thought of that, but I could almost creat something like a graflex film pack but not in a 35 without changing something important....

  5. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    @mike1allison I think if I started shooting 4x5 I would be pushing my luck. I mean my lady is very tolerant but she does have a limit!

  6. mike1allison
    mike1allison ·

    @charliedontsurf well luckily most of my 2x3 and 4x5 stuff still exists for the most part. They've been buried away through two house moves.... but, I'l actually starting to dust it all off.... my 2x3 stuff is already getting a little bit of use. Couldn't find my film holders....

  7. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    @mike1allison I'm glad to hear that, load up some of your direct positive paper, lets see what it will do!

  8. mike1allison
    mike1allison ·

    I'm going to now that I have a day or two off and my 2x3 stuff is ready. Still missing my tripod mount for you 4x5. How do things get into different boxes? So confusing...

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