Re: What paper do you use?

Hi Tom,

I generally work with Ilford paper, RC or Fiber, either Pearl or Matte. I find that Ilford Fiber Matte gives me very interesting paper negatives but it does not work all the time, since the matte surface tend to remove some of the impact from the image.

For my last room-turned-pinhole project I used Ilford Fiber WarmTone DoubleWeight Glossy paper and got excellent results with it. I bought a roll that was 50" X 100 feet (if I recall correctly). Exposure time on bright sunny day was about 3 1/2 hours (half of which spent dodging the center area with a huge dodging tool to get even exposure).

I've built a couple 20"x24" pinhole cameras, one using black foamcore, the other using 1/4" plywood. The trick is to find a good way to keep the paper firmly in place without loosing too much edge area. With these cameras, I always use fiber paper, since I make one-only paper negatives intended for gallery exhibition and sale.

I also use Forte Fiber Warmtone DW Pearl and Luminos Fiber Charcoal for projects involving the Lith-Printing process, a process where the paper is overexposed by 3-4 stops (8 to 16 times the standard exposure) and subsequently developped in highly diluted Kodak A+B Lithographic developer for about 8 to 10 minutes. The results are wonderful, but this is a tricky process.

Contact me when you're ready to work on a very large format camera. It's not as hard as most people might think it would be.

Good health to you, my good friend Tom, and a very merry Christmas!

Guy Glorieux

>
> De: Tom A Lindsay <pinhole-guy@juno.com>
> Date: 2005/12/17 sam. PM 08:36:17 GMT-05:00
> À: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
> Objet: [pinhole-discussion] What paper do you use?
>
> Hi All,
>
> Doug Holt wrote an e-mail wanting to find out about PAPER for his
> negatives. I too want to know what's the best or favorite PAPER of
> pinholers. I am just about out of my Kodabromide F2S, which is no longer
> made and need to hear what you all think. Please only tell me about
> PAPER.
>
> "Keep on Pinholin'",
> Tom Lindsay
>
> PS Does anyone know where Vera Lutter got the paper she used to make
> that huge paper negative that was on E-Bay for $32.000. Did that thing
> ever sell? I switched it around in PhotoShop and it's not all that,
> that's just my opinion.
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