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!
@PictorialPlanet4 ай бұрын
Excellent tip!
@guillermoperezsantos4 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😘
@timwalker67904 ай бұрын
Dammit. Had me fooled till the end!!! 😅
@MrocznyTechnik4 ай бұрын
Maybe next year reversal self developing paper to put into medium/large format camera? :D
@petesime4 ай бұрын
Happy 1 April everyone.
@jwbarsby4 ай бұрын
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.
@guillermoperezsantos4 ай бұрын
😝............... april.............. the first.............
@jwbarsby4 ай бұрын
@@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.
@randallstewart12244 ай бұрын
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.
@PictorialPlanet4 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment, Randall. Hope it gave you a chuckle.
@MrocznyTechnik4 ай бұрын
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
@PictorialPlanet4 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment and for seeing the funny side :)
@raybeaumont76704 ай бұрын
I must give this a try ....... probably in twelve months time. All the very best john - from The Rhondda.
@mityakassian4 ай бұрын
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..
@PictorialPlanet4 ай бұрын
🫣
@grampadoug1004 ай бұрын
You are a Classic! Thanks for putting a smile on my face.
@costinsavin48314 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant. You really make my day. Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣
@paulstillwell4 ай бұрын
You had me going for a bit there! Nice one!
@cuxietube4 ай бұрын
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 🙂
@PictorialPlanet4 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@matthewsmith58834 ай бұрын
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.
@faraz24984 ай бұрын
I was dreaming up making some 4x5" sheet for shooting LF when the penny dropped 😆
@hoggif4 ай бұрын
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.
@hanshaumer27284 ай бұрын
A nice idea fore the 1. April
@PictorialPlanet4 ай бұрын
Thank you, Hans!
@francoismassin86494 ай бұрын
Oh Wow John ! Thanks for that one, you made my day 🤣
@davidottman95014 ай бұрын
Well done, John, happy April!
@PictorialPlanet4 ай бұрын
Cheers!
@AsenWanen4 ай бұрын
I celebrate this video. Great job🎉
@johnbelcher79554 ай бұрын
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
@rolfduchene4 ай бұрын
😁 great show mr. finch
@jwbarsby4 ай бұрын
After recovering from my gullibility I now want to know if you could use an enlarger with a Polaroid.
@romyaz17134 ай бұрын
i am down with flu while watching this. i thought i was going crazy )) you got me
@phillipP88484 ай бұрын
well done, second time today.
@MattysChannel13574 ай бұрын
Awesome, this is great :D Could you make a video of the developers with the best aftertaste next, or the most crunchy films :D?
@paularellano29624 ай бұрын
Always learning something new . Negative exposure has to be right on . My question is this technique archival ?
@garychatfield67094 ай бұрын
That's a cracking April Fools joke John!
@johnstewart81344 ай бұрын
Seems everyone went all out on april fools this year
@Jacksymmar4 ай бұрын
This is an old method, decades ago. Heard it when young