Direct camera exposure on Ilfochrome

[philip_caithness]

Has anyone tried exposing via a camera directly onto Ilfochrome paper.

In order to do this you would use a very large format camera (8x10 or greater) and a custom made 'film' back to hold the Ilfochrome paper.

 

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You would be producing strictly one off images, but what would the quality be like? Would it be better than using a slide file. I'm just contemplating this as something to much around with.

 

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Any thoughts are welcome.

 

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Regards,

Phil.

[lars ake vinberg]

Isn't color paper for tungsten light? Unless I am mistaken, you would

need a color correction filter for daylight (85B?)

[ken_burns1]

Phil:

 

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Why would you need a custom made back? Why not just use a standard

8x10 film holder? You might have to trim the paper size a little

bit, but you might not.

 

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You definitely would have to make color corrections as mentioned

above. An 85 series filter would be a good place to start, but some

additional fine tuning of the color balance would probably be

necessary. The Ilfochrome would have a very slow "film speed rating"

so there would probably be fairly long exposure times that could

result in some color shifts that you would have to correct for with

CC filters. A little experimentation should take care of that.

 

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The image you get will be reversed left to right, but that would be

correctable by photographing a mirror image of the scene.

[harry_pluta3]

Phil,

 

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Another issue is that, unlike film, the color balance in each packet

of paper is slightly different. Before I went to a digital darkroom

it used to take me 4 or 5 sheets to get the color calibrated each

time I opened a fresh pack of paper.

 

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-harry

[pete_andrews]

I suspect that the contrast and colour saturation would be too low to

be useful.<br>Slide film has a mid-tone gamma of 2, and Ilfochrome is

made to reproduce this exaggerated contrast, as well as being balanced

for tungsten. The HC version might work.

[erik_gould1]

I've made pinhole camera images using ciba (ilfo) chrome in the past

and got some fun results. I added the 85 blue filtration as was

mentioned to get the stuff close to daylight balance, and my exposures

were as one would expect very long. 60 min + as i recall. as far as

being better than trans film, I would say no, but if you are

interested in a unique look, and want to have fun, then yes. The image

will be reversed too, like a d-type or tin type. signs will read

backwards, etc.

[sean_yates]

Hasn't Willie Anne Wright been doing this a good long while?

 

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