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Featured Posts
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Welcome Tina Bele – Piller Cuveeol recipe
11 January 2015 8:00 PM | 3 CommentsHello readers, I know it was pretty quiet last year here on the blog. It’s not that I had no […]
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Technical Pan in Caffenol-SMT / Mini Workshop
07 February 2014 5:29 PM | 2 CommentsI recently asked in the Caffenol Facebook group how I should shoot a roll of Kodak Technical Pan. Many people suggested […]
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A Coffee with…No. 7 – Becky Ramotowski
04 February 2014 9:16 AM | No CommentsAfter a long, long (too long) break, we continue with our Series “A Coffee with…” where we present analog enthusiasts […]
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LeiCaffenol – Caffenol Workshop in the Leica Gallery Salzburg
28 June 2013 7:25 AM | 2 CommentsMark your calendars! I will teach a 2 days caffenol workshop from 31.08-01.09.2013 together with Marco Spalluto at the Leica […]
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Equipment Archive
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Hot Coffee
Posted on July 3, 2012 | 3 CommentsSomeone in the caffenol Facebook group asked if there is a faster development process then caffenol, and I referred him […] -
Wineol – Red Wine developer
Posted on June 20, 2012 | 42 CommentsNiklas Rühl posted a picture in our Facebook Group of a negative developed in Wineol, an alternate devolper that is […] -
Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results. And Large Format
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Pictures from the sea (literally, as far as fixer concerns)
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The Delta Recipe Goes Standard.
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Caffenol as paper developer
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Action!
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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 | 5 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.A 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. -
ISO 50
Posted on September 3, 2010 | 1 Commenthen 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.