"max" wrote

pinhole paper negatives... photo development
... not in a libraray in my town
... does anyone know of a website

the paper i (sic) am using is called
ILFORD MGIV MULTIGRADE IV RC DELUXE

Might try Ilford:
http://www.ilfordphoto.com/Webfiles/...1111431518.pdf
You will need to do only some of the steps ...

Pinhole site:
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/index.htm

Your tax dollars at work:
http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/Pinholephoto.pdf

For pinhole negatives you need:

o A room you can make completely dark, one with running
water is best
o Photographic paper
o Developer chemical
o Fixer chemical
o Dishes / trays - 2 or 3 large low baking dishes work fine
o Red lamp - a red Christmas tree lamp placed so your
workspace is as dim as you can tolerate and still work

That's it.

o Mix developer and fixer according to directions, pour
each into a dish, if you have a 3rd dish fill it with water
and place it between the developer and fixer dish
o Make the room completely dark and turn on the red light
o Put the paper in the developer solution for 2 minutes
and rock the dish to keep the chemical swirling over the
paper, if you have a dish of water then put the paper in
the water dish for 30 seconds or so
o Pick up the paper and move it to the fixer for 2 minutes,
keeping the dish rocking
o Rinse the paper under the tap and put into a large sink
or tub filled with water, let it sit for 5 minutes,
swirl it around now and then
o Rinse the print again under the tap
o Blot print dry with paper towel and place face up on
a bath towel to air dry


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Maybe it was my imagination, but I seem to remember lots of sites
with tutorials on making pinhole negatives with normal household
stuff. Either I am looking in the wrong places or they have
disappeared.

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Darkroom Automation
http://www.nolindan.com/da/fstop/