I’ve done it.
I have a larger format camera, 20” x 24” and film is both inordinately
expensive, and too fast, as the lens has no shutter. I used paper and a 30
second exposure, and got reasonable results.
I was not scanning the negative sheet, but placing it, still wet, face to face
with another sheet of paper, which provided me with the positive print.
I also did a couple of images where I exposed one half of the sheet, keeping
the other half in the shade, and then folded the sheet to make the print, all
on one sheet of paper.
I think I may have used Kodak Xtol for some of my experiments, as it provided a
lower contrast image on the paper. I cannot recall what paper I used.
Mortenson has a book on the process from the 30’s which I picked up second
hand. He seemed to feel that the ability to retouch was one of the great
advantages of the method.
Best
Laurence Cuffe
On 24 Feb 2017, at 06:24, Dana Myers <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/23/2017 10:21 PM, Richard Lahrson wrote:
Hi everyone!
I was wondering what kind of results one could expect from
shooting photo paper in camera? Is the scale too short to
be useful to scan?
I made several decent contact prints from a paper "neg" in a pinhole camera,
I'm sure I'm not alone. This, of course, suffered from the softening effect
of printing through the paper, which you could surely avoid with scanning,
reversing and inverting the image.
73,
Dana K6JQ
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