Shooting Adox CMS 20 120

Caffenol LC+C  

I shot a roll of Adox 20 yesterday.  Conditions were perfect, bright sun, some clouds to occupy the sky, and a monstrous piece of architecture with all manner of detail.  Weird lines angles circles, ellipse, everything a micro film could want.  I have processed the negatives using the LC+C recipe with an addition of Sodium Sulphate.  As soon as I scan them today or tonight, I will post some un-edited images here.  My first impression is that they look beautiful.  There is a medium to heavy coffee stain as one would expect after 18 minutes in the soup.

Good detail but pretty grainy.

So this is the result of 18 min in Caffenol LC+C. The negatives looked super dense and contrast also looked perfect.  However once scanned they seemed to be quite grainy, more so than when developed in Adotech II, and to get to this image I had to do several rounds of up resizing and sharpening.  So My next test will be to try to shoot in the same conditions again then develop in Adotech II.  I like the look of this image it is just quite noisy in the sky highlight areas.  

Better

This is more like it there seems to be less noise and I did not have to work at sharpening excessively. No Polarizer was used on this shot!  Hmmmm!  I did do some sharpening and the usual dust removal.  Oh and by the way I am just doing a straight up scan at 1451% 360dpi.

Better Yet?

I am not so sure.  Still required a lot of sharpening via Perfect FX and Aperture.  Then as always highlight grain became evermore apparent.  

Adox CMS 20 Processed with Adotech II

This image is knife sharp and is representative of what I would want to achieve from Caffenol of some iteration.  Can it be done?

This is a color rendition of what I will be reviewing in Silver via Adox CMS 20