I love film photography! But large format film is expensive. So I decided to test out my FIRST LARGE FORMAT CAMERA, the Busch Pressman Model D 4x5 Film Press Camera, by shooting directly onto ILFORD Direct Positive Paper and developing it in my @pinstacamera. It used to be sold as HARMAN Direct Positive Paper.
Direct Positive photo paper, made by Harman Technologies (a.k.a. ILFORD), is a special sort of photographic paper. Normal darkroom paper usually needs a negative film to produce a positive image. That's because normal photo paper turns dark wherever light touches it. So since the light is already inverted in a negative film, when light passes through the film and hits the paper, the dense siver halides in the highlights of the negative block the light coming from the enlarger, while light freely flows from the enlarger bulb, through the thin shadow areas, and onto the paper. Burning the paper in the shadows, and leaving the highlights relatively untouched. TONES 101!!!
So anyway, Direct positive paper does the opposite. Once you develop the paper, anywhere that light touched the paper becomes BRIGHT! So you can load it directly in your camera and shoot away. It's basically cutting out the middle man. Don't tell "BIG FILM"! Or else kodak will be coming for me!
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TIMESTAMPS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
00:00 FILM SUCKS
00:25 Busch Pressman Model D
00:52 ILFORD Direct Positive Paper
01:25 Developing Direct Positive Paper
01:35 Pinsta Camera
02:09 First Results
02:26 Flash & Direct Positive Paper
02:40 First Flash Results
03:13 Dog Photos
03:34 Solarization
04:03 How to Focus Press Camera
04:16 Rangefinder v.s. Ground Glass
04:27 Studio Flash Portraits
04:48 Success with Flash on Paper
05:31 Multiple Exposures
06:07 Pros & Cons of ILFORD Paper
06:58 Merry Christmas
07:14 SUSCRIBE
06:33 Do You Need Pinsta?
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