paper negatives?

Hi all

I have an opportunity to do some woodwork next two mondays and of course
I decided to build a camera. But. Time is running short and I couldn't
find a filmholder off-the-shelf here in my home town. Another issue is
that I have never developed sheet films and using photographic paper is
easy to develop in the darkroom because you can have safelight.

Some time ago there was a discussion using filmholders and photographic
paper, but if I recall correctly, the paper is too thick to be used in
the holder. Now I'm asking for assistance how to use photographic paper
so that more than one picture can be taken without going to change the
paper in the darkroom. One idea came to me looking at joycam's film.
Could the papers be stacked (maybe a opaque sheet between the papers,
and after exposing one, draw it with some method to a safe place (I'm
thinking of letting the paper just fall from the rear to the bottom of
the camera.) If there's this opaque sheet between the papers, the paper,
facing down and covered with the black sheet, this should prevent it
from exposing when taking new pictures. How to do this in practice is
open, but it might be possible. Any ideas are more than welcome.

I have 120 pinhole camera already, so I'd really would like to build a
larger format camera.

Any _fast_ help appreciated :-)

Thanks

-matti
mjkoskin@koti.soon.fi
Received on Tue Mar 5 04:44:41 2002