Exposing Kentmere Printing Out Paper

[TheTimeChamber]

anyone had any experience using this, or something similar, in pinhole cameras?

How do you stop it exposing before development?

 

[joxby]

Its traditional darkroom paper isn't it, you want direct positive to use in a pinhole.

POP (Printing Out Paper). This is an ultra silver-rich traditional B&W paper, manufactured once a year to order. It is a contact paper suitable for large format negatives and produces stunning results.


POP in a pinhole after processing will be a negative image on the paper, that's why its used for contact printing, you place your negative on the paper, expose light through the neg and the black areas on it will be white areas on the paper...and vice versa.

Direct positive paper shot in a pinhole will produce a positive image on the paper after processing, no negative required.

I dunno who's still making direct positive paper

 

[s162216]

I dunno who's still making direct positive paper

Ilford were making it until recently, but as it used an emulsion developed and licensed by Ilford Imaging Switzerland (a separate company who did the 'Ilford' branded inkjet papers), who went into receivership a couple of years ago they've been unable to further manufacture it and are apparently trying to secure the emulsion from the receivers.

 

[joxby]

Its a shoot neg film job then, and contact print it to ordinary paper..

or.......shoot ordinary paper, develope/scan and reverse it digitally

I kinda wanna do a contact print of a 10x8, but not from a pinhole..:/

 

[StephenM]

Or use ordinary paper and use reversal processing. I couldn't immediately think of any obvious reason why reversal processing wouldn't work with paper as well as film, and a 5 second Google turned up this thread on APUG.

 

[TheTimeChamber]

Cheers guys