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Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results. And Large Format
11 March 2012 9:11 PM | 3 Comments
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Caffenol as paper developer
15 December 2010 2:20 PM | 5 Comments
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caffenomatography
14 December 2010 3:47 PM | 1 Comment
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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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Pictures Archive
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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... -
Matchbox Pinhole & Caffenol
Posted on January 7, 2011 | 3 CommentsCaffenol Reader and Lomography member Hana (http://www.lomography.com/homes/hilarion) sent us her results of a matchbox pinhole camera. Instructions how to build... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
more Kodak Porta 160 NC
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 5 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. -
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. -
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.