Re: Cyanotypes

Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have been using ortho film in my pinhole cameras almost exclusively. My
> pinhole shots are printed with cyanotype or gum usually.

I looked into Ortho film, but it's a tad too expensive compared to paper
as it's not an item that most places stock. I went into my local pro
shop as I was buying stuff from them anyway and it would have cost
about £55 ex VAT for 25 sheets of 10"x8"; that's around $120.91
assuming a $1.8709 to £1 exchange rate...

[snipped developer bit...]

> There are some other alternatives depending on what you want to try. Many
> alt-process users make digital negatives -but this is tricky. You could
> try scanning a paper negative and printing the scanned image on
> transparency material, and use this as a negative.

The reason I do pinhole and want to do cyanotypes is as an alternative
to digital. I sit in front of a computer all day at work, last thing I
want to do in my spare time is sit infront of a computer fiddling with
images...

> Could also try photocopying your paper negative onto a transparency and
> use this as an image. This would alter the image characteristics, but it
> may "work" for your image.

I'm not sure that the quality of the photocopier at work would be up to
the task of producing anything that could happily be used...

My cyanotype kit and paper were supposed to be turning up today; I got
a phone call from Fotospeed saying they'd sent me 20 sheets of Fabriano
5 paper rather than 10 as the mill cut it slightly smaller than 10"x8"
and they didn't want me to feel like I'd missed out on paper. Sounds
good to me, so I think I'll just experiment with a few paper negatives
that I've got and see what happens.

Cheers,

-- 
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