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John F Boline - 29 Jan 2005 06:42 GMT

I've got an old Polaroid camera that I was thinking of using for paper
negatives.Years ago I read a article in one of the photo magazines about
the street photographers in Tijuana Mexico using paper negatives. I was
wondering if anyone had any experience with paper negatives.

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Mike King - 30 Jan 2005 17:31 GMT

I've done it for fun. I used a press camera and loaded the paper in film
holders. Papers are much slower than film so your exposures will be quite
long. RC papers with backprints are not suitable. You want a fairly low
contrast negative print with no real white areas (underexposure) and them
contact print the processed and dry negative with another sheet of paper.
You can even retouch the back of the paper with a pencil. (Enlarged paper
negatives were an early home retouching media for "glamour" portraits.) You
can also make paper negatives from slides or even negatives if you make a
paper "interpositive" from the negative first.

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> I've got an old Polaroid camera that I was thinking of using for paper
> negatives.Years ago I read a article in one of the photo magazines about
> the street photographers in Tijuana Mexico using paper negatives. I was
> wondering if anyone had any experience with paper negatives.

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laura halliday - 30 Jan 2005 19:53 GMT

Paper negatives are very common with pinhole cameras. I've experimented
with 5x7 this way. With an effective ISO speed of about 6 they do not
lend themselves to snapshots...

If you typed "paper negatives" in to any search engine you would have
found a wealth of information.

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