Paper Negative Speed Testing

[Ian-Barber]

Working with paper negatives can be challenging, even more so when the paper is single grade 1,over 35 years old and has some slight age fogging to it.

If it wasn't for the fact that I have a 60 foot roll of the stuff, I probably would have thrown it on the log burner months ago.

This is a test photograph I made this morning after spending the last few days doing various speed tests under a variety of lighting conditions.

This particular exposure was made at ISO 3

 

[Helen Summers]

You constantly amaze me Ian with the quality of the paper negatives. It gives me hope that all is not lost if LF film becomes unobtainable. Hopefully that will never happen. Just to satisfy my curiosity what is the negative size?

 

[Ian-Barber]

This one is 5x4 inches Helen

 

[Hendo'svan]

Working with paper negatives can be challenging, even more so when the paper is single grade 1,over 35 years old and has some slight age fogging to it.

If it wasn't for the fact that I have a 60 foot roll of the stuff, I probably would have thrown it on the log burner months ago.

This is a test photograph I made this morning after spending the last few days doing various speed tests under a variety of lighting conditions.

This particular exposure was made at ISO 3

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Wonderful tones Ian.

 

[Soulstar89]

Impressive to see such tones from a paper negative. I’ve only ever seen very contrasty portrait paper negatives.