Paper negatives

[Randy]

Contrast looks great on those. Very nice.

[chrism]

"Mehr Licht!" This was lit with:
a window on the left and above
a 60W incandescent hanging above and behind the subject
a 27W CFT in a reflector to the right (should be like ~75W incandescent)
a gynecology examination lamp to the right and below (you use what you have, right?)

I rated my Ilford MG RC paper at ISO 12, based on past experience, but this is a different box, although it is also several years old like the last box. Spot metering on the better lit cheek was EV 10, EV 9 on the darker cheek. 300mm lens but bellows at 500mm, so I added two stops to compensate. I actually took five exposures, developing them as I went along. 1/2 sec, 1 sec, 2 sec, 3 sec, 4 sec. This is 3 seconds.

Once Passover is over, B&H will be sending me a couple of lights with three 27W CFTs in each (ought to add up to ~300W incandescent). Things might improve then. In the meantime I think I shall have to put some HP5+ in!

Chris

[TPanico]

I have been having fun taking these pictures.

[chrism]

This might be of interest (or not, as the case may be). I took the same photo twice using Ilford MG RC paper, and Ilford MG Developer. Both were scanned on the same scanner with the same settings, and both were exported from Lightroom with the same development exactly. The first has no filter, and the second has an orange Lee Filters Daylight to Tungsten full CTO in front of the only light used, and another Lee Daylight to Tungsten full CTO in front of the camera lens as well. Exposure was measured on a neutral grey card for the unfiltered photo, with an extra half stop for the second photo as that's what my spotmeter said was required when I checked the grey card through the filter.





In order to make sense of it, you should know that the beetle is orange, and the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle is metallic pale blue (oh, I bet a lot of you knew that already!) I thought the orange filter would make the contrast less given the orthochromatic paper used, and that the orange beetle would be lighter. Perhaps I screwed up somewhere in the exposures, but as things stand, I prefer the photograph without the orange filter (which gives me a half stop less exposure time - hurray!) At present, it looks like the orange filter has increased contrast, rather than reduced it. Perhaps this paper isn't truly orthochromatic?

Chris

[TPanico]

[basiltahan]

8x10 Selenium toned paper positive (is that ok on this thread?)

Fujinon W, 360/6.3, Kodak Master View

Forward tilt, f32, 2 minute exposure

[Rick A]

First shot with my Century 11x14/F9:360mm Rodenstock APO Ronar on Forte RC paper then contact printed on same paper.

[Mkillmer]

8x10 paper negative developed in paRodinal 1+50 and Benzotriazole 1+90

[TPanico]

[Kodak]

two paper negative prints.
paper used for negative: AGFA MCP 312 RC out of date. Not usable anymore for final prints but very usable for paper negative.
Rated as ISO 3



Tulip 1



Tulip 2