April 1st 2024 - Making Auto Developing Paper

In this April 1st video I show a joke technique of how to make paper that develops itself. A very simple and easy solution to having to use developing trays and long washes.
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[@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

[@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.

[@petesime]

Happy 1 April everyone.

[@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 :)

[@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]

🫣

[@raybeaumont7670]

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

[@paulstillwell]

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

[@grampadoug100]

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

[@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!

[@costinsavin4831]

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

[@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.

[@faraz2498]

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

[@francoismassin8649]

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

[@hanshaumer2728]

A nice idea fore the 1. April

[@PictorialPlanet]

Thank you, Hans!

[@jwbarsby]

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

[@davidottman9501]

Well done, John, happy April!

[@PictorialPlanet]

Cheers!

[@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

[@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 ?

[@AsenWanen]

I celebrate this video. Great job🎉

[@rolfduchene]

😁 great show mr. finch

[@johnstewart8134]

Seems everyone went all out on april fools this year

[@romyaz1713]

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

[@garychatfield6709]

That's a cracking April Fools joke John!

[@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.

[@phillipP8848]

well done, second time today.

[@Jacksymmar]

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

[@carstennorwaynorge2195]

April april john finch 😂

[@abbetguo4332]

差点就信了～～🤗

[@psblad2667]

Best one today!!!🤣

[@guillermoperezsantos]

[@trevorparker3794]

😭

[@AndrewHenderson]

😁

[@necro31581]

❤😂

[@chriscard6544]

I fix with marshmallow

[@GianniGiatilis]

😂😂😂

[@goritedi3410]

ha! ha!

[@lhuhnphotography]

😂

[@scotttaylor8140]

😂 a wasted talent.

[@MacShrike]

[@hanshaumer2728]

A nice idea fore the 1. April

[@dickvisser8363]

Brilliant!😂

[@PictorialPlanet]

Thanks, Dick!