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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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Scanning Archive
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Caffenol for paper prints
Posted on May 24, 2011 | 5 CommentsIt’s been a long time since there was an article here on caffenol.org and I know that some of you... -
Caffenol as paper developer
Posted on December 15, 2010 | 5 CommentsCaffenol-C in all variants makes a wonderful developer for negative film and if used carefully, it can be used for... -
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. -
Neutral Color in B&W
Posted on March 30, 2010 | 1 CommentI have a fair amount of Kodak Professional Portra 160 NC (Neutral Color) but never tried it out. Having still... -
Hold on. Color film?
Posted on March 12, 2010 | 3 CommentsWell, you can develop every kind of film in Caffenol (a B&W process, that is) as long as it contains silver. So why not push that to the extreme and use an expired ISO 1600 Film and develop it in Caffenol.