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!

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