Direct Positive Paper

[Pete Askew]

I thought this Kickstarter project might be of interest. Especially to @Brian Moore and @Hamish Gill 5x4 in a Speed Graphic or MPP?!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...eed-direct-positive-photo-paper?ref=discovery

 

[Ian Grant]

There's something odd about this project as it states it uses a reversal process. Slavich already make a "Positive" paper for photo-booths and this goes through a crude dunk-dip B&W reversal process similar to making B&W slides.

Essentially this is develop, wash, bleach (the processed image), wash, clear, rinse, fogging developer. More complex than the simple dev, fix & wash needed for Harman (Ilford) Direct Positive paper.

So this is not a Direct Positive paper at all, it's just optimised for speed & reversal, you can in fact reversal process any B&W paper.

Ian

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks, Ian. It is the speed bit that I find most interesting though as the paper I have been using works out at about ISO 3 - 6.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Nice ... That'll be getting backed

 

[Pete Askew]

I did.