If you run out of film, you can always use paper

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If you run out of film, you can always use paper

Post by Joanna Carter » Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:40 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hi folks

Just seen this. Ilford have brought out reversal paper.

You know what struck me? It was so nice to see a photographic emulsion that you can't get in anything smaller than 4 x 5 8)
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Re: If you run out of film, you can always use paper

Post by Nigels » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:48 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Interesting. I used paper instead of film when I had a go at pinhole photography. I shot on Ilford Multigrade III and then contact printed onto another sheet of paper. Worked fine. If and when I ever get round to making my 10x8 pinhole camera this seems worth a try.
Interesting that it states pinhole photography as a possible use.
Here is a pic of my pinhole camera made from an old lego carton;
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Re: If you run out of film, you can always use paper

Post by Emmanuel Bigler » Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:32 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Just seen this Ilford have brought out reversal paper.

GREAT !

I'll immediately pass the info to the French LF group !
So far in terms of B&W reversal photographic paper, the market only offered one example of this kind of paper, one EFKE-made (sold in the USA) or re-sold (??) under the brand Kraus Silver Gelatine Papier by a German photographer, Susanne kraus, who uses a giant portrait camera with direct-reversal B&W paper.
http://berlin.unlike.net/locations/3067 ... -Imago-1-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZgeKRXL8DM
The paper was available in Europe
http://www.foto-riegler.at/neu.fotopapi ... ss_Papiere
http://phototec.de/phorum/read.php?3,170643

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