ISO rating for Ilford Art 300 as paper negative

Fragomeni · Nov 12, 2021

Wondering if anyone has worked with this paper for paper negatives (in camera). If you have, what ISO rating did you find worked best for you? In general I’ve found most Ilfrod fiber papers to be around ISO 3 or 6. Curious if folks are finding the same for Art 300?

Pieter12 · Nov 12, 2021

Fragomeni said:
Wondering if anyone has worked with this paper for paper negatives (in camera). If you have, what ISO rating did you find worked best for you? In general I’ve found most Ilfrod fiber papers to be around ISO 3 or 6. Curious if folks are finding the same for Art 300?

Art 300 is about half the speed of the classic FB ilford papers when printing.

cowanw · Nov 12, 2021

With its thickness, I will be interested to hear how it works as a negative.

Fragomeni · Nov 12, 2021

cowanw said:
With its thickness, I will be interested to hear how it works as a negative.

I actually work primarily in direct positives so I won’t actually be exposing through them as negs. I’ll be processing it with a reversal process. The iso used for paper negs just helps me extrapolate how to treat the speed in the context of direct positive.

tezzasmall · Nov 13, 2021

It would be really interesting to see the results when you do something.

If you are making direct positives, what camera / neg size are you using / making?

Terry S

Fragomeni · Nov 19, 2021

tezzasmall said:
It would be really interesting to see the results when you do something.

If you are making direct positives, what camera / neg size are you using / making?

Terry S

I’m shooting 20x24 in camera. I’ve just recently completed a new 20x24 camera build and am building out a new darkroom so I can get to work.

tezzasmall · Nov 30, 2021

Fragomeni said:
I’m shooting 20x24 in camera. I’ve just recently completed a new 20x24 camera build and am building out a new darkroom so I can get to work.

Sounds ever more interesting!

I've built a box pinhole that takes 12" x 16" paper, but haven't got around to using it yet, but reversal processing the paper negs sounds like a good idea. I've read and watched videos about it and have all the necessary bits. I just need to find some time to work my way through the process.

Oh, and I love Art 300 as a printing paper, so I might try the same process with that paper as well - although in a smaller format for me, because of the cost per sheet.

Terry S

kyuseok · Jan 21, 2024

Hey! Were you finally able to use Art 300 as a direct positive paper?
If so, at what speed did you expose?

ISO rating for Ilford Art 300 as paper negative

Privacy & Transparency

Privacy & Transparency