Hi Bruce and welcome.
Anything goes in this artform, pick any paper to start with. You'll get very
similar results with all of them, so just concentrate on the process for
now.
The differences between glossy and mat surface is important, though.
Mat paper is good for negatives because the surface
I've been playing with a converted 35mm and now am moving up (over?) to 4x5.
Reading Eric Renner's wonderful book, he suggests ...RC multigrade
mat-surfaced paper... for paper negs and contact printing. Looking in
Shutterbug and at Kodak and Ilford websites, I'm now lost.
Reading Kodak's website
Welcome to the list. I have made a camera like your idea but with 120 film. The
problem is making the advance system and arc. I copied the advance mechanism
from Beseler 6x9 cardboard camera and made my body and arc out of 4 and 8 ply
black core mat board. For the arc of a 35 mm camera you might
Many thanks to all who responded so thoughtfully to my questions!
Regards,
Wayne
If you are unable to free yourself from worrying about this, which would be
my first suggestion, you can draw out your sight lines for each inch of
bellows extension on a piece of cardboard, lay it on top of the camera,
centered on the film plane and go to it. For closeup work, a laser pointer
