Sunday, February 24, 2013

Arista 400 Production Versions

I did a little post prod, with two of the last Arista Images.  They are included in this post.
I did not have to do much.  The grain to me is acceptable and the sharpness is good for 400 ISO shooting.



So we are clear this is the Recipe Caffenol STD. (Via Dirk Essl)


Arista Premium 400 shot ASA 400 Caffenol STD

These actually look nicer that I though they would as I first removed them from the soup.
These were done at nine minutes 20C.  Images were shot on N80 using Sunny 16 Rules EV of 15 - 16?  I think that the Caffenol managed the grain very well without sacrifice to sharpness.





Thursday, February 21, 2013

More to Come

The idea here is to publish results, from my experimentation with home made film processing systems. I have processed 6 - 7 rolls of film now using variations of Caffenol, I have found the initial formulae in several different locations on the internet i.e. digitaltruth, APUG, and Caffenolblogspot.com.  All films except for one looked stunningly beautiful when pulled from the wash.  The one odd ball was a roll of HP5 that I tried to stand process in very week solution of CM.  I let stand for 45 min, and ended up with a clear strip of 35mm film?  I also intentionally under exposed a couple of stops.  That was pretty early on in my experiment so I am going to take a do over on that roll.
  I have just begun to shoot Foma film and most advice available on popular forums has said to shoot them a 1/2 Box Speed.  So that is what I have been doing.  I generally look up the film on digitaltruth prior to shooting to see what their opinion is regarding Caffenol processing.  The Efke and Adox films that I have processed were all done at box speed.

This is another shot from the Efke R25 Roll that I processed in Caffenol CM.  I used a little Tilt Shift Software Post Prod to get the Tiny Town image below.
This image was taken with Bronica ETRsi using a graduated Medium Density Filter.  F:22 2 seconds.  Yeah Pretty slow for a day light shot!