Paper negatives

[T.Chabry]

Here are a few shots with paper negatives and a Japanese half plate camera i just received.


img172 by T. Chabry, on Flickr


img173 by T. Chabry, on Flickr


img174 by T. Chabry, on Flickr

[T.Chabry]

Here is the camera in action:


Japanese half plate camera by T. Chabry, on Flickr


Japanese half plate camera by T. Chabry, on Flickr

[ki_]

Nice camera, beautiful pictures. But there seems to be some cloudy development at the first picture. Or is it just from scanning?

[T.Chabry]

Thank you. I'm not sure what you mean about the first photo but there was a light leak from a couple holes in the bellows. It's more noticable on the last photo.
I think I fixed the holes but I have to wait for a warmer day to shoot in the sun again.

[mpj01]

I am currently scanning paper negatives on an epson scanner. I hope to try to develop to positive sometime soon. I know there is a technique.

[Floydd]

I am currently scanning paper negatives on an epson scanner. I hope to try to develop to positive sometime soon. I know there is a technique.

Thanks for the reply, I will just give it ago and see what i get, there are some interesting videos on youtube but if anyone has any advice please chip in.

[Fr. Mark]

"I hope to try to develop to positive sometime soon. I know there is a technique."

More/less you need a dried paper negative and a piece of glass to smash it flat against another piece of photo paper, the two emulsions in contact, the negative on top. Then you turn on a light. You can draw a piece of something opaque across to work out exposures, then develop in whatever paper developer scheme you are using for the negative. It is a lot of fun. If you print with the negative face up, as I did with some of the neg's as a 10 year old, the prints will be very soft!

Having typed that, I realize you might mean directly to a positive from the in-camera piece of photo paper. Someone more knowledgeable than I am will have to answer that, though I think I may've seen a procedure for that somewhere.

[stiganas]

Having typed that, I realize you might mean directly to a positive from the in-camera piece of photo paper. Someone more knowledgeable than I am will have to answer that, though I think I may've seen a procedure for that somewhere.

This is an old direct positive in camera paper (preflash and reversal development)

[Bernard_L]

@ T.Chabry. Nice pictures. Surprising how you manage to capture the dynamic range of a snow scene onto paper that typically has range in logE of 1.2, i.e. 4 stops (or zones, for the adepts).

[T.Chabry]

@ T.Chabry. Nice pictures. Surprising how you manage to capture the dynamic range of a snow scene onto paper that typically has range in logE of 1.2, i.e. 4 stops (or zones, for the adepts).

Thanks. I don't think I did anything special but maybe Caffenol is better for paper negatives? I do know it's a lot better to lower the contrast compared to regular paper developers.

Here are a few more photos I took a couple days ago:


img175 by T. Chabry, on Flickr

img177 by T. Chabry, on Flickr


img178 by T. Chabry, on Flickr

img176 by T. Chabry, on Flickr

For the last photo, I used Lightroom Classic to lower the exposure and increased the contrast on the sky only.