Caffenol-C 1st attempt

[Freelander]

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I've been wanting to try this developer for ages. I finally found a Norwegian that could set me on the right track to the ingredients for this developer. Anyway I got hold of the three basic componats and mixed then together using this receipe which I halved to make 500ml as it is a one shot dev.

 

The film I used was Expired (1997) Kodak T-Max @50asa Development was 20mins at 20℃

Inversions for the first 30 seconds and then 3 for every min.

Here is one of the shots from the reel.

 

Camera Leica MP

Summicron 90mm F2.0 APO ASPH

 

I can only say that it was great fun to try and will be using this developer more in future.

Edited May 15, 2011 by Freelander

[Stealth3kpl]

This looks really good. What a charming image too. Thanks for the link. I'll have a go at this.

Pete

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[Chrism..]

Congratulation, very good result in my mind.

(Good picture too )

[Keith (M)]

Interesting discussions on using instant coffee as a developer here and here. Was going to give it a try then realised the only instant in the house is de-caff...

[too old to care]

Thanks, learn something everyday, and great shot.

 

Wayne

[cbretteville]

David,

It is amazing what you can do with instant coffee, washing soda, vitamin c and a touch of potassium bromide.

 

I've been working with Caffenol variants since Christmas. There is a lot of Scandinavian activity around it over on APUG: Caffenol - norsk resept?

A list of recipes with image examples can be found here

 

Some samples of my work with Caffenol-C-L (I really like the semi stand development and the genarally one stop push it gives) can be found here APUG

 

Carl

Edited May 15, 2011 by cbretteville