Lumenprints, ...I know, everybody make it, but ....

Everytime, when I need my efforts to an important job, I get a lot of other ideas and inspirations...
Do you know this?
This time I've seen videos about Lumen-Prints.
Analoge photography on light-sensitive photo-papier without chemicals?
Wow, what colors, what posibilities. So I took 3 of my old 9 x 12 cm - Cameras and start in the middle of night with Lumen-Photography.

Camera & Object (with day-light)

The problem: it was impossible to find the right field of sharpness on the screen. It was really too dark... But I didn't like to wait, and wanted to go to bed.
I hoped to get some marvellouse Lumen-Prints when I get up at high noon...
This was the theory...

But what I've got, was that:

Lumenprint on photo-paper, exposing time about 7 hrs.

Ok.
It is the negative, but where are the colors?
Later, I find out, that the colors are on this black/white-photo-paper, but only very, very light.
The next step was, to make some digitally "remasterings".

The same Lumenprint, after the digital-process.

Now I take a new photo on usually light-sensitive foto-paper, in the daylight, exposure-time = 40 minutes.

Lumenprint, 40 min. after fixing (yes, with chemicals) and additional exposing with UV-light.

To protect the negatives, I fix them with usually foto-fixer. Then I rocognized, that they became more contrast, when they are laying in day-light (UV-light), after fixing.

Photo from above, after digital inverting.

Digital print from the same photo, after playing with photoshop and so.

Same photo. After I've find out, how to manipulate and controll the colors.

...and your Lumen-Prints?

Show me ;-)

-ekk-

IT WORKS!

Yesterday I've taken pictures with my Agfa-Clack-Pinhole.
"So what?", do you think.
Oh, I've take the pic with an exposure-time of 1/30 with the 0.2 mm Pinhole.
"So that!"
Ok, it was a sunny day, I've used a Ilford 3'200 ASA - b/w-film and developed it in DD-X for 22 min / 24°C. So the film was pushed to more then 12'500 ASA (17 min / 20 °C).

The School across from my studio. Sunny day, 1/30, f 270.

Same situation, but extremly shadows in this "selfie". Sunshine from above, rest in the shadow.

The same scan, a little bit digital "remastered"..

Pinhole with AGFA CLACK

This idea is from YouTube: a Agfa Clack should be the best kamera to transfer into a pinhole-camera.
Just at the day, I've got a Clack, I've found my 0.3 mm drill inbetween other "camera-making-stuff".
So I started:

Dremel with the 0.3 mm drill.

A little bit closer.

After drilling into an old offset-plate, I attached the pinhole to the Clack.
Adittional I removed the F-Stop and Close-up-construction.

Clack with Pinhole + wire-release.

Clack-Pinhole with the new cover ;-)

Of course, I was very unpatient, to test this new, down-sized camera.

The test with 40 sec. exposure time, with a working laser-engraver in the background.

In the test-pic, you can see, the lots of grayscales the 6 x 9 cm-negative includes.
I've taken it with an Ilford-Delta, pushed to 800 ASA.
The good quality of the pic is, because the negativ-base of inside the camera is curved.
Additional the viewfinder is very helpfull: it shows about 75 % of the view. The original lens has 95 mm, the pinhole ca. 80 mm.
The negative is scanned with an Epson V800, an enlarging on analog photo-papier could be better...

Thanx 4 watching, have a healthy day
-ekk-

Kodak Vest Pocket

Kodak Vest Pocket

Yes,... this camera is 40 years older, then I am...
It is very nice, but we should not forget, that this is a "soldier-camera" from the 1st world-war.
I really cannot imagine, how men in such situation are able to put a film into the camera...
I had some problems with that and so, there was a light-leake on the first some pictures.
Nevertheless, some photos are well,... only on the top are some tracks, bad developing ?-(
The reason can be the circumstances of the developing-tank. It was the first time since 50 years, I need to pull the film. Usually I rotate the film-tank.
In the film (RERA 400) I found some pinholes... I hope this came from the brandnew developin-tank, not from the emulsion of the RERA...

left: 135er, rigkt: RERA 400 127er roll.

I think, now it is time to take a peek to one photo, made with the Vest Pocket:

Scan from a 4 by 6.5 cm negative of the Vest Pocket

At the end, a word about the costs: the film costs nearly the double prize of a 120er roll-film.
There are some tipps to cut a 120er roll into 127er roll, findable in the web.
I think about, to buy one of the new Ilford-Ortho-120er-rolls, to test this in the darkroom with red light. The ortho-film has no red-sensitive, so it is not good for people-photography, but good to use for architecture and landsscape.

It would be nice, if you drop some lines about your experiances with a Vest Pocket and, or 127er Films.

stay healthy
-ekk-