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ISO 50

dirk

– September 3, 2010Posted in: Equipment, Film Database, News, Pictures

When I started analogue photography, I wanted to shoot on grainy high speed films primarily, preferable at night. So far I have not managed to do a grainy night shooting, but did buy a lot of different films just to see, how they look in caffenol. So this week I tried Ilford Pan F 50, a panchromatic ISO 50 film. And as I currently have an Olympus OM4-Ti, it was just perfect to try out the spot metering features of it.

I’m impressed by both. The Spot meter in the OM4 gives perfect control over the Exposure, and the Ilford PanF is a fantastic, fine grain film that can be easily developed in caffenol. Coupled with a fast Lens, shooting wide open can even happen during the day. All of those where shot through a OM Zuiko 50mm/f1.4 Lens, as wide open as possible.

Developed using the Delta Recipe.

Tags: Ilford PanF 50, ISO 50, Olympus OM4Ti

The Espresso Camera

dirk

– August 16, 2010Posted in: Equipment, Film Database, News, Pictures

Small, black, fast. This is how you can describe the Revue 35CC. The camera was also sold as Chinon Bellami and has a very unique opening mechanism using the advance lever. Some people call it a ‘barn door’ camera, as the lever opens two doors and extends the Lens.

Features are minimalistic: 35mm f2.8 Lens, Program AE, Scale Focus.
A dedicated (automatic) Flash can be added to the camera, which makes the camera perfect as pocketable party cam.

Example pictures are shot on Ilford Delta 400 Professional, developed with the Delta Recipe

Tags: caffenol, Ilford Delta 400 Professional, Revue 35CC, The Espresso Camera

Smena Symbol – The other LOMO

dirk

– July 26, 2010Posted in: Equipment, News, Pictures

I just love going on a flea market and buying any camera that the owner is willing to give away for under 5 EURO. Just like this wonderful Smena Symbol. A plastic camera from Russia, made in the LOMO factory. It features a 40mm f4 lens and weather symbols as additional shutter speed scale. The lens has a stepless aperture, which doubles as ISO setting. You can read more about this camera on Camerapdia.

Of course, I immediately put some Film in the camera when I got it and began to shoot. Unfortunately the shutter got stuck after some images, but the pictures it did so far where very acceptable for a low spec plastic camera. All developed in Caffenol-C, using the Delta recipe.

Tags: caffenol, delta, HP5, LOMO

Harmony Recipe

dirk

– July 6, 2010Posted in: Film Database, Pictures, Recipe

Josh Harmon was kind enough to share his caffenol recipe and sent me two nice pictures, developed in caffenol. They show how flexible caffenol is, and that there is enough room for experiments.
The films he tried are Arista EDU 100 (fomapan 100) and an old TMAX 100:

Locked Gate, Arista EDU 100

Pinole Car Show, TMAX 100

He was out of photo-flo and tried using an ethyl alcohol and water mix, which did not work. The Arista EDU shots are good though.

Here is his recipe together with his instructions:

20oz Water (Tap is ok)
6.25 tsp Na2CO3 (Washing Soda)
10 tsp Instant Coffee (Must be regular)
2.5 g L-Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C (Tablets ok))

Pour 2 glasses with 10oz of water each, while stirring dissolve the washing soda in one and the coffee and vitamin C in the other.
Load film in tank.
Mix the 2 glasses together, it should be a dark brown color and smell odd, then take the temperature.
Pour into developing tank and continue normally as if it was normal developer.
Fix and dry
Your Done!

Arista EDU 100: 7-8 minutes
Old T-Max 100: 8-9 minutes

NOTE: Some fogging and a slight speed increase will occur.

Thanks, Josh for sharing, I will name the recipe after you, the “Harmony Recipe”

Josh’s website can be found at http://web.mac.com/pbharchitect/JHPhotoArt/

Tags: Arista EDU 100, caffenol, TMAX 100

Goodbye Leica

dirk

– June 29, 2010Posted in: Equipment, Film Database, News, Pictures

I had a Leica M6 for loan for quite some time, but gave it back recently. What can I say about this camera? It’s beautiful, gorgeous and so unobtrusive at the same time. Paired wit the 35mm f2 this is an ideal street shooter. Here are the last shots I took with the M6. All on Kodak Porta 160 NC, developed in Caffenol-C. This film looks stunning in Caffenol. If you are in the need for a low speed film with some very nice film grain, you really should consider this type, even if it is a color film.

I can only say thank you, Ed for lending her to me for so long. I still have the smell of the leather case in my nose.

Tags: caffenol, Kodak Porta 160 NC, Leica M6

Stars galore!

dirk

– June 12, 2010Posted in: Equipment, Film Database, News, Pictures

So finally we found a day, where there are clear skies and packed our car with some Equipment. As Wolfgang bought a new 200mm Newton Telescope, we didn’t take too much Photography Equipment as we would be really busy enjoying the view of Saturn through a 8mm Ocular. But I left the shutter open for 4 hours on my Zorki 4. I think I can be proud of a shot of startrails, that is not boring Ilford HP5 Plus Developed in Caffenol-C+ (3x Vitamin-C to decrease grain).

Zorki 4, Ilford HP5 Plus, 4hours Exposure

We did shoot a lot digital, of course, I did mainly wide field shots on a motorized EQ4 mount:

Pentax K10D, 18mm, 336sec Exposure

And finally all worthy shots together with some candies

Tags: caffenol

Found film

dirk

– June 1, 2010Posted in: Film Database, Pictures

On a recent flea-market I bought a Revue 35CC with some Film inside for very, very little money. The camera had a stuck shutter, so I took the half exposed film out and cleaned the camera. Fresh batteries and voila, the little Revue is alive again. I developed the film in caffenol (what else), a Kodak Gold 200. The last two frames where really interesting, as they show the inside of a camera shop, supposing the owner bought a new camera on this date. He forgot to take out the film, though. If you recognize the place or the little kid, please give me a shout

Yes, I should have rewashed this film.

As this film was most probably expired a loooong time ago, and it’s not sure, how the film has been stored, I would not take these pictures as examples for developing Kodak Gold in Caffenol. Nevertheless I have put it into the Film development chart until I have better defined examples for this film.

Tags: caffenol, colorfilm in b&w, Kodak Gold 200, Revue 35CC

Stir until smooth!

dirk

– May 20, 2010Posted in: News

Because of the really bad weather, we had no chance to do our caffenol astroshooting. So instead of going shooting, we mixed up some developer and spent the last days with developing and scanning film. So hold on, we will post some more stuff soon.

Tags: News

Caffenol goes Astrophotography

dirk

– May 5, 2010Posted in: Equipment, Pictures

There is not so much happening here at the moment, because I have bought too many cameras in the last weeks and need to finish all the films.

But I am quite excited about one event that will take place next week. We will head towards Sudelfeld and shoot at about 1700 meters height. And will shoot the stars. Mostly digital Cameras will be used, but I will take some analog equipment with me to shoot star trails throough the whole night. And to add some crazyness, I will of course then develop the whole lot of films in caffenol.

Currently I have planned the following setup:

Canon EOS 3000N with 28mm/f3.5 for some widefield trails on Ilford Pan 50
Zorki 4k with 50mm/f2 for 1 shot of the peak through the whole night on Ilford HP5
Agfa clack on TMAX 400 for shooting our setup. (Yes, sometimes we are VERY oldschool)
Pentax K10D with 24mm/f2.5 for shooting the Milky Way
Olympus PEN-EP2 with 500mm/f8 for Planet hunting. (HD Video shoot and stack)
Canon EOS 350D IR with 28mm/f2.8 for IR shots
Canon EOS 450D with ‘Russentonne’ 1000mm/f10.5 for Planet hunting

To give you an idea, here are some shots from the last shooting:

wish us luck

Neutral Color in B&W

dirk

– March 30, 2010Posted in: Film Database, Pictures, Scanning

I have a fair amount of Kodak Professional Portra 160 NC (Neutral Color) but never tried it out. Having still the Hartblei Tilt-Shift on my Canon 3000N, I thought I should give it go. And low ISO film always comes out great in Caffenol.

Here are the results:

Those strange colorshifts are the results of scanning in color and letting Photoshop ‘guess’ what the color of the film might be. The blue touch comes from the orange mask used on color negatives.

Recipe used: Delta

Tags: caffenol, Canon 3000N, colorfilm in b&w, Hartblei, kodak, Kodak Porta 160 NC

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  hen I started analogue photography, I wanted to shoot on grainy high speed films primarily, preferable at night. So far I have not managed to do a grainy night shooting, but did buy a lot of different films just to see, how they look in caffenol. So this week I tried Ilford Pan F 50, a panchromatic ISO 50 film. And as I currently have an Olympus OM4-Ti, it was just perfect to try out the spot metering features of it.
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- The Espresso Camera
  16 August 2010 8:46 PM | No Comments
  Small, black, fast. This is how you can describe the Revue 35CC. The camera was also sold as Chinon Bellami and has a very unique opening mechanism using the advance lever. Some people call it a ‘barn door’ camera, as the lever opens two doors...
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- Smena Symbol – The other LOMO
  26 July 2010 9:05 PM | 2 Comments
  I just love going on a flea market and buying any camera that the owner is willing to give away for under 5 EURO. Just like this wonderful Smena Symbol. A plastic camera from Russia, made in the LOMO factory. It features a 40mm f4 lens and weather symbols as additional shutter speed scale. The lens has a stepless aperture, which doubles as ISO setting. You can read more about this camera on Camerapdia.
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- Harmony Recipe
  06 July 2010 6:51 AM | No Comments
  Josh Harmon was kind enough to share his caffenol recipe and sent me two nice pictures, developed in caffenol. They show how flexible caffenol is, and that there is enough room for experiments. The films he tried are Arista EDU 100 (fomapan 100) and an...
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- Goodbye Leica
  29 June 2010 6:38 AM | 2 Comments
  I had a Leica M6 for loan for quite some time, but gave it back recently. What can I say about this camera? It’s beautiful, gorgeous and so unobtrusive at the same time. Paired wit the 35mm f2 this is an ideal street shooter. Here are...
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