Bromide Paper Negs

I am going to be a bit cheeky and see if I can get someone else to do

my experimentation. But first let me explain my situation. I live on

the Falkland Islands and any materials I obtain take ages to get here

and cost a fortune. I want to build a 10 x 8 camera and was considering

using paper negatives as I have a reasonable flat bed scanner but it

will only scan up to 120 film negs. It makes tremendous scans from

reflective materials, I have scanned bromide prints and found that ink

jet prints are almost as good.

I have used paper negs previously to test out equipment but found them

rather contrasty. ( I still have some from 30 years ago and have made

test ink jet prints from them) I used grade 3 paper for those negs and

was wondering if using grade 1 or 0 would give negs that would print

with a wider range. I know that paper has an ortho emulsion but that

might suit what I wish to achieve. can anybody help or advise me?

Thanks, Norman

Could try asking in an appropriate forum :P

( this is digital darkroom, not film )

You're more likely to get some pointers on APUG. I've never tried paper negs myself, but from what I've read there are several ways you can tame the contrast, including lower grade or old paper, using yellow or green filters during exposure, split development (e.g. Ansco 130 + water bath), etc.

http://www.apug.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-5019.html

How about paper positives?

<A href="http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=&pid=1000002931" Fotokemika Positive Paper </A>

http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=&pid=1000002931

sorry, i forgot to link.