Featured Posts
-
Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results. And Large Format
11 March 2012 9:11 PM | 3 Comments
Read More -
Caffenol as paper developer
15 December 2010 2:20 PM | 5 Comments
Read More -
caffenomatography
14 December 2010 3:47 PM | 1 Comment
Read More -
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.
Read More
-
News Archive
-
caffenomatography
Posted on December 14, 2010 | 1 CommentIf you are new to film developing, or just new to caffenol developing you can find plenty of ressources on... -
Film, etc.
Posted on December 8, 2010 | No CommentsToday, I proudly present a blog of a friend of mine who calls himself “a Linux sysadmin at day and... -
Action!
Posted on November 28, 2010 | No CommentsI cleaned up my camera cabinet yesterday and stumbled upon my Action sampler camera where I remembered I shot some film with... -
Scan VS print
Posted on November 7, 2010 | 8 CommentsYes, the title of this post looks confusing, because of course scanning is an input process and printing is an... -
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. -
Caffeafine (Using Caffenol-C as 2 step developer)
Posted on October 19, 2010 | 7 CommentsA friend of mine recently told me about Diafine, a quite famous dual solution developer that is said to push mid tones by 1 stop. Diafine is a compensating developer, meaning you put in Solution A, let the film rest for 4 minutes with maybe 1 slow agitation per minute, pour out Solution A (both solutions can be reused) and then put in Solution B and let it develop further 4 minutes with agitation that is specific to the used film. I was amazed about the tonality that the developer brings, and because I like experimenting, I thought why not try out something like that with Caffenol. Of course I knew that it will most probably not push the mids, and I cannot reuse the Caffenol mix, but it was fun for the experiment. -
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. -
ISO 50
Posted on September 3, 2010 | No Commentshen 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. -
The Espresso Camera
Posted on August 16, 2010 | No CommentsSmall, black, fast. This is how you can describe the Revue 35CC. The camera was also sold as Chinon Bellami... -
Smena Symbol – The other LOMO
Posted on July 26, 2010 | 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.