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Just testing the water with a pinhole photography project I'm doing with some students next month:

I've got my 4x5" Ilford direct positive paper

made my pinhole camera (kelly's icecream tub and 0.3mm 'pinhole' drilled in copper shim)

loaded it and tried a 6 minute exposure as suggested in the ilford literature

Dev the paper and its black, so i think dam massive over exposure or light leak!

So i do another shorter exposure, results are the same

So i dev a sheet straight out of the box and its black... Now thinking damn its gone 5 I cant even ring ilford to ask for advice

Just dawned on me over coffee, its positive paper, black is under exposure not over exposure!

Maybe tomorrow when my brain is working I'll have another go :)
 
That's the spirit! Don't let a reversal put you off.
 
If it makes you feel any better, I thought I'd lost a 77mm CPL a couple of weeks ago when out in the middle of a boggy field. Couldn't find it anywhere and the case was empty.

Got home, ordered a new one on Amazon.

When it arrived I took it out, went to put it on my 17-40 and realised I had left the polariser on the lens from a previous time out shooting and hadn't put it back in the case.... seriously.

:banghead:
 
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