Re: enlarging paper negatives

Hi

I tried color paper in a pinhole, then contact printed to make a color
print.

One additional problem other than filtering for the expected orange mask
and light temp, Color paper is expecting a relatively low contrast image
from a color neg. Even a soft pinhole camera in exterior sun lit scenes
are way more contrasty than color paper can handle. Plus you are doubling
the contrast because the negative paper is going high contrast, and then
the second generation print.

So i would suggest low contrast subjects.

Now this is advice if you are trying to get realistic colr. If you don't
mind artsy effects, it is fun. i did it at school where we had an auto
paper processor. So i'd shoot w/ the pinhole go into the loading room and
feed the paper into the machine. a few minutes later I had the dried
color paper neg. This allowed me to tweek, and still have time to go out
and shoot again.

Good luck

Mac

>Leezy,
>
>I've made 8x10 color paper negatives with my 8x10 pinhole.
>
>One of the difficulty I've had with color paper as negative to turn into
>positive is the fact that all paper companies (as far as I could tell) have
>their name/logo in thread on the backside of their color paper.
>Unfortunately, these threads then translate onto your positive and is not so
>attractive. I have not found a way to deal with that.
>
>Another tricky issue to deal with is the color filtration at the
>negative-creation stage, if you are to make a positive image. Color paper is
>calibrated to tungsten light and you need to correct with a blue filter. But
>then color negatives have an orange base and, since the filtration in the
>enlarger is calibrated for that, you need to have a similar orange filter in
>your negative carrier.
>
>Has anybody else played with color paper negatives?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Guy
Received on Mon Nov 12 06:26:08 2001