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!

Fotoğrafçı:
charliedontsurf
Yüklendi:
2020-05-02
Fotoğraf Makinesi:
Pentax MX
Film:
ilford direct positive paper fibre base
Lens:
SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7
Albümler:
Direct positive

4 Yorum

  1. captainfantastic
    captainfantastic ·

    Haha, great. With moustache Connor would have looked like Charlie Chaplin!

  2. guja
    guja ·

    Love this shot, despite or maybe because of the mistakes ;-) Very interesting description, have used direct positive paper only in a pinhole camera so far and can confirm that the exposure latitude is very small.

  3. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    @captainfantastic yes! it's a couple of hours old, could be 100yrs!

  4. charliedontsurf
    charliedontsurf ·

    @guja thanks Gudrun, you know me by now, perfection is never my goal so yes this one is right up my street too. Glad you enjoyed the description, I really think people on here shouldn't be scared to say a few words about their photography, after all its a passion we all share, I for one always take the time and mostly enjoy what people have written, the artistic intent, the technical stuff, the location etc. Its a shame that most people are either too shy, too modest, can't be bothered, don't care or perhaps they are worried that no one will be interested. Please lomo people, do try to write a few words from time to time, even if it's not in English because even if I can't understand a word of it I will still drop the text in a translation app if I'm suitably intrigued! 😁

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