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!

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charliedontsurf
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2020-05-02
相機:
Pentax MX
菲林:
ilford direct positive paper fibre base
鏡頭:
SMC Pentax-M 28mm f2.8
相簿:
Direct positive

4 個留言

  1. captainfantastic
    captainfantastic ·

    This one looks exactly like a very old Newspaper print! Cool experiment with the direct positive paper!

  2. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    @captainfantastic yeah its cool stuff but a bit of a bugger for an impatient pulverantilist like me. Thanks!

  3. lomodesbro
    lomodesbro ·

    I am still trying to get a decent exposure with my Obscura. Paper positives or negatives are high contrast with narrow latitude. They are hard to get right. I do like the portraits positive paper which match the paper well. Keep experimenting

  4. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    @lomodesbro thanks Des. If I learnt anything its that this stuff doesn't take well to over exposing unlike conventional film. If anything err on the side of underexposure. Have a go in one of your manual slrs with a good meter, set the meter to iso32 and count down 4 stops, that's where I had the best results. I did this then transferred my readings to the rodenstock but that has the old style f stops, f9! and a shutter that I've no idea of its accuracy! Its amazing how nice the little 35mm slices blow up when scanned. To have a 4x5 camera, now that would be a luxury...

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