Paper negatives

**James R. Kyle** · 21-Nov-2019, 19:51

Originally Posted by Emil Schildt

Got a visit of these two young girls...
They wanted to try to be photographed with an old camera and a lens that is 165 years old...
They were SO good at posing...
13x18 cm paper negative
Gandolfi precision camera
Ross petzval lens from 1854...

Very good work.

I need to do more portrait work.

**rjbuzzclick** · 22-Nov-2019, 11:38

Graflex Series B 4x5 handheld:

**John Olsen** · 22-Nov-2019, 17:34

Originally Posted by rjbuzzclick

Graflex Series B 4x5 handheld:

Handheld? What paper do you use? (Nice images, too)

**rjbuzzclick** · 22-Nov-2019, 22:09

Originally Posted by John Olsen

Handheld? What paper do you use? (Nice images, too)

Thanks John! I have a bunch of Kodabrome II RC that expired sometime in the late 1980s. It's a little bit fogged so I don't need to pre-flash it. It works really well around ISO 6 for me. This was probably shot around f/4.5 at 1/10. The Graflex RB seems to be fairly forgiving shooting handheld with slower shutter speeds. The paper negatives are a bit overexposed so I need to pull them early from the developer. They typically develop in 20-10 seconds.

**James R. Kyle** · 24-Nov-2019, 15:36

Originally Posted by rjbuzzclick

Thanks John! I have a bunch of Kodabrome II RC that expired sometime in the late 1980s. It's a little bit fogged so I don't need to pre-flash it. It works really well around ISO 6 for me. This was probably shot around f/4.5 at 1/10. The Graflex RB seems to be fairly forgiving shooting handheld with slower shutter speeds. The paper negatives are a bit overexposed so I need to pull them early from the developer. They typically develop in 20-10 seconds.

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Kodabromide II RC is one of my fraovite papers for both Paper Negatives and making prints, contct and enlargment. I find is very predictable.

**rjbuzzclick** · 26-Nov-2019, 14:48

Originally Posted by James R. Kyle

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Kodabromide II RC is one of my fraovite papers for both Paper Negatives and making prints, contct and enlargment. I find is very predictable.

If mine didn't have a touch of fogging, I would use it for prints too! I have two 500-sheet boxes of it in 8x10, which is an awful lot of paper negatives when you cut each sheet up into four 4x5 sheets!

**James R. Kyle** · 26-Nov-2019, 22:11

Originally Posted by rjbuzzclick

If mine didn't have a touch of fogging, I would use it for prints too! I have two 500-sheet boxes of it in 8x10, which is an awful lot of paper negatives when you cut each sheet up into four 4x5 sheets!

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Here is one made from Kodabromide II RC - f-11 @ 1 sec. // Developed in a mix of Ethol (LPD) 1:9 and Dektol 1:4 with 6 Oz of water to make one quart of working solution. Reg Stop and Fix. Camera used = 8X10 Ansco (1941) Lens 215 ILEX.