Michael, As Guillermo answered, "basically any B&W paper without water marks would do it."
Though, there may be some issues to consider : - if you use curved plane cameras, I suggest you not to use glossy surface paper : the internal reflections inside the camera (box, can,etc) generally produce two dark lines on the negative paper , where the reflection causes over-exposure... Give preference for matte or semi-matte surfaces. - RC papers have an advantage for drying fast and flat (useful when you contact the paper for making a positive!) - if you want to use Fibre base paper rather than RC, it is easier if you plan to make contact positive prints from your pinhole negative papers to use a thinner paper support, such as the Single-Weight FB, VC paper available at Freestyle Camera www.freestylecamera.com at low cost. Unfortunately, it seems you can no longer find this paper in an other surface than Glossy ( inconvenient previously described ). - VC papers seem for me the best choice since you can easily adapt the contrast of your paper negatives by using, while you make your picture, multigrade filters in front of your pinhole. If consistently your paper negatives are too contrasty and blocked up, use of a soft filter may help a lot ! > FAST PAPER is an oxymoron. It has been agreed -sort of- in this list that > ISO-6 is a good starting point for modern B&W paper emulsion Yes, this is a good basis but I notice that I'm more often close to ISO 4; maybe, it is just because I prefer to expose towards over-exposure than under-exposure... More info settles on the support and you can always get it back (take your time) as if there is no info recorded, you have nothing to do ;-( Hope it helps Cheers from France Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "G.Penate" <pen...@home.com> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:21 AM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Beginning Paper? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Georgoff (SAL-US)" <michael_georg...@trendmicro.com> > > > Can anyone recommend a good printing paper to start with for paper > negative > > work? I've only ever done pinhole onto negative film and had it lab > > processed. > > > > Any recommendations for a fast, easy to use "beginner" paper, and some > clues > > for ASA speed of recommended papers? (And why are there no "positive" > > papers??) > > Michael, > Basically any B&W paper without water marks would do it. I > like Ilford MGIV glossy. Some people try to make the paper more translucent > (before they contact print it) by using wax (for instance), I don't. > > FAST PAPER is an oxymoron. It has been agreed -sort of- in this list that > ISO-6 is a good starting point for modern B&W paper emulsion. As for > positive papers, I believe some people do use them, some people do > cibachrome pinhole photography, thing I have no experience with but pretty > sure some others in this list can tell you more about. > > If you want a reciprocity table for B&W paper, there is a table in one of > the small articles I've written about pinhole, check my site. > > Guillermo > http://members.home.net/penate/pinhole.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/ >
