April 1st 2024 - Making Auto Developing Paper

[@nilzthorbo5437]

Amazing. I followed exactly your instructions. But what i did different: i prepared three developer baths with different dye inks from my inkjet printer (magenta, cyan and yellow) and repeated the process three times (once for every colour) in total darkness. Now i have a perfectly fine replacement for all of my instax film! It's amazing! Thank you!

[@PictorialPlanet]

Excellent tip!

[@guillermoperezsantos]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😘

[@timwalker6790]

Dammit. Had me fooled till the end!!! 😅

[@MrocznyTechnik]

Maybe next year reversal self developing paper to put into medium/large format camera? :D

[@petesime]

Happy 1 April everyone.

[@jwbarsby]

That’s fascinating. How do you determine roughly when your developer is spent and ready for this? Does it depend on the number of prints that you’ve made with it? …Oh hang on just looked at the date. You totally got me.

[@guillermoperezsantos]

😝............... april.............. the first.............

[@jwbarsby]

@@guillermoperezsantos I was even thinking ‘how is that going to work’ as I was watching, but John’s delivery was just so calm and serious I fell for it. There are so many weird reversal techniques etc, this seemed ‘plausible’, well for a minute at least. lol.

[@randallstewart1224]

Okay, you got me good. I've been doing my own processing for 66 years, and I've got a better than most familiarity with the chemistry involved. As I first watched this, I kept saying to myself that the chemistry of this simply couldn't work. Also, at this point in life, I like to think that I've seen or heard it all, but nothing like this. Then, I reset my watch to April 1 and started rewatching to leave a comment, and all was revealed. Better than the home processing kit for Kodachrome demonstrated on another channel a few years ago.

[@PictorialPlanet]

Thanks for your comment, Randall. Hope it gave you a chuckle.

[@MrocznyTechnik]

I started watching without reading the title. Analog photography is a kind of magic for me, and the video was so serious and explainatory. One thing that bothered me was bathing non-developed paper into a fixer :) But I watched till the end as a educational video :D

[@PictorialPlanet]

Thanks for your comment and for seeing the funny side :)

[@raybeaumont7670]

I must give this a try ....... probably in twelve months time. All the very best john - from The Rhondda.

[@mityakassian]

Thank you for a brilliant idea! I just prepared 100 Ilford portfolio sheets 16x20 such way. Hope it will work, I’m so tired of doing it in a classic way..

[@PictorialPlanet]

🫣

[@grampadoug100]

You are a Classic! Thanks for putting a smile on my face.

[@costinsavin4831]

Absolutely brilliant. You really make my day. Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulstillwell]

You had me going for a bit there! Nice one!

[@cuxietube]

Fantastic! As soon as I noticed the new video from Pictorial Planet on Monday morning (USA) I started watching it. But, at around 1:30 my ears started perking up and by 2:00 I thought, wait a minute, when did John publish this? Sure enough, April 1st! Then I watched the rest of the video. Love it! Thanks for the effort of putting this together 🙂

[@PictorialPlanet]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@matthewsmith5883]

Great demonstration! It would be much more practical if this technique worked every day of the year, instead of just on the 1st of April. For some it may be worth waiting and doing all of their printing on one day.

[@faraz2498]

I was dreaming up making some 4x5" sheet for shooting LF when the penny dropped 😆

[@hoggif]

I'm happy to see how that is made at home. I surely have to give it a try, almost out of my commercial old stock.

[@hanshaumer2728]

A nice idea fore the 1. April

[@PictorialPlanet]

Thank you, Hans!

[@francoismassin8649]

Oh Wow John ! Thanks for that one, you made my day 🤣

[@davidottman9501]

Well done, John, happy April!

[@PictorialPlanet]

Cheers!

[@AsenWanen]

I celebrate this video. Great job🎉

[@johnbelcher7955]

Thank you!!! I work with disadvantaged people in a hostel and have done pin-hole photography with them, using paper as negatives, but in work, the use of chemicals is difficult/problematic, and calibrating the exposure time may take a few attempts. Many thanks

[@rolfduchene]

😁 great show mr. finch

[@jwbarsby]

After recovering from my gullibility I now want to know if you could use an enlarger with a Polaroid.

[@romyaz1713]

i am down with flu while watching this. i thought i was going crazy )) you got me

[@phillipP8848]

well done, second time today.

[@MattysChannel1357]

Awesome, this is great :D Could you make a video of the developers with the best aftertaste next, or the most crunchy films :D?

[@paularellano2962]

Always learning something new . Negative exposure has to be right on . My question is this technique archival ?

[@garychatfield6709]

That's a cracking April Fools joke John!

[@johnstewart8134]

Seems everyone went all out on april fools this year

[@Jacksymmar]

This is an old method, decades ago. Heard it when young

[@carstennorwaynorge2195]

April april john finch 😂

[@psblad2667]

Best one today!!!🤣

[@abbetguo4332]

差点就信了～～🤗

[@guillermoperezsantos]

[@necro31581]

❤😂

[@AndrewHenderson]

😁

[@trevorparker3794]

😭

[@goritedi3410]

ha! ha!

[@chriscard6544]

I fix with marshmallow

[@GianniGiatilis]

😂😂😂

[@lhuhnphotography]

😂

[@scotttaylor8140]

😂 a wasted talent.

[@MacShrike]

[@hanshaumer2728]

A nice idea fore the 1. April

[@dickvisser8363]

Brilliant!😂

[@PictorialPlanet]

Thanks, Dick!