Rc B&W paper lift

mysteryscribe · Feb 4, 2006

Okay everybody is talking about polaroid but did you know that you can shoot a piece of paper in your sheet film camera. Develop it in a daylight tank, then strip the emulsion layer. I had to scrape the rear a little with a dull butter knife, but then I scanned it on my flatbed with my homemade back light and it worked very well as a matter of fact. I only did it a couple of times because it was easier to develop it and scan the print. but you could most likely do that with a color print from the drugstore too.

I will have to try that. It would be interesting to see what you could do with it. Unless of course your drugstore has gone ink jet. Mine hasn't yet.

terri · Feb 4, 2006

What kind of RC paper was it? How well did the emulsion hold together? I think someone here said they had tried it before.

I'd like to see the results from that experiment!

mysteryscribe · Feb 4, 2006

What i shot before was arista. He was talking about ink jet paper. You cant lift it.
take a look at the bottom of the lakeview for a drugstore lift.

terri · Feb 4, 2006

mysteryscribe said:
What i shot before was arista. He was talking about ink jet paper. You cant lift it.
take a look at the bottom of the lakeview for a drugstore lift.

No, I wasn't referring to our newbie here.

He was confused.

We had a member a few months back who actually had lifted some emulsion from an RC paper....can't remember what kind, but he'd toned it ahead of time and it was very sepia-colored. Not super good-looking, but he showed it could be done.