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Caffenol as paper developer
15 December 2010 2:20 PM | 5 CommentsTweet
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caffenomatography
14 December 2010 3:47 PM | 1 CommentTweet
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Smena Symbol – The other LOMO
26 July 2010 9:05 PM | 3 CommentsI 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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Caffenol goes Astrophotography
05 May 2010 10:44 AM | No CommentsThere 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.
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Film Database Archive
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Kodak Portra 100T
Posted on June 21, 2011 | No CommentsWhile sorting out my Camera Cabinet I found a Roll of exposed Kodak Portra 100T (Tungsten). This film is not... -
Rollei Retro 100 Tonal
Posted on March 21, 2011 | 2 CommentsRecently I wrote an article about an extremely cheap film, the wonderful Lucky SHD 100. Today I will post some... -
Rollei RPX 400 (was:Retro 400S)
Posted on March 6, 2011 | No CommentsCorrection! I mixed up negatives while scanning, And just found out that This Film is NOT Rollei Retro 400S, but... -
Lucky SHD 100 – film can not be cheaper
Posted on February 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsI got a testbatch from MACO of Lucky SHD 100, a very popular Film used by Photography students in the... -
Agfa Copex Rapid in Delta-MICRO
Posted on January 17, 2011 | 5 CommentsIf you are looking for a (very) high resolution and (very) contrasty Black and white film, you have probably looked... -
Happy New Year!
Posted on January 1, 2011 | No CommentsIt’s been a busy year for caffenol, and 2011 will not calm down, that’s for sure. I would like to... -
more Kodak Porta 160 NC
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 2 CommentsI went to a Photo fair the other weekend and bought another, small camera that I always had an eye on: The Olympus XA. It is in excellent condition, came with the A11 Flash and a small bag. It had already batteries installed and as I always carry a Film canister with some film with me, it was obvious to put it in: 2007 expired Kodak Porta 160 NC. A wonderful color film, that comes out great in caffenol. The XA has only full ISO stops, so I dialed in ISO 200 and began shooting. -
Density
Posted on October 27, 2010 | No Commentsf you read a bit about caffenol development or development in general, you will quickly learn phrases like "my negatives came out very dense" or "negatives where thin, but scanned fine". So what does all that mean? If you develop color films in caffenol, most likely you will get dense negatives (dense meaning you cannot see through the film in this case), positive films and High ISO films will be denser then low ISO films. These negatives are not very good to produce prints on paper, as contrast is quite low and they have an orange mask. High ISO B&W Films will most likely come out very thin and will look like underdeveloped negatives. Both types will scan fine and with a small amount of Post Processing (Level adjustments) they will look good on a screen. -
Kodak T-MAX – from T-Grain to Coffee granules
Posted on October 12, 2010 | 4 CommentsSome may be surprised that it took me so long to try out Kodak TMAX 400 in caffenol, but that's how I am, always wanting to try out something new, something different. A friend of mine gave me a roll of TMAX 400 because he said he really likes it. It's a Tabular-grain-film like the Delta films from Ilford where the silver halide crystals are more flat and tabular. Kodak says it is the sharpest, fined grained ISO 400 film and it pushes up to EI 1600. So why not taking it to the Construction of the Oktoberfest in Munich and shoot at dusk with a slow Lens, a Tamron 28-80 f3.5-5.6 Developed in the Delta recipe with doubled amount of Vitamin-C -
ORWO PAN 100
Posted on September 20, 2010 | No CommentsRecently someone gave me two rolls of ORWO PAN 100, a panchromatic Black and White film, made here in Germany. ORWO still sells it as medium speed surveillance film, but I don't know if the emulsion nowadays is the same as the one from the film that I've got. This panchromatic film has the characteristic to be sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light, producing a very realistic image.