Caffenol

27 posts
2013

LeiCaffenol – Caffenol Workshop in the Leica Gallery Salzburg

Mark your calendars! I will teach a 2 days caffenol workshop from 31.08-01.09.2013 together with Marco Spalluto at the Leica Gallery …
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2012

Fighting Dust

Today I am declaring war. I can see, that I got your attention! What am I declaring war on? DUST! I know that there are plenty of ways to …
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Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results. And Large Format

This is an article of fine art figure photographer Scott Nichol from Allentown, PA, USA. You can visit his blog at …
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2011

Merry Christmas!

I would like to wish everyone of you a Merry, Merry Christmas. Thanks for all the comments, lovely pictures and ideas that you sent me in …
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Kodak Portra 100T

While sorting out my Camera Cabinet I found a Roll of exposed Kodak Portra 100T (Tungsten). This film is not available new anymore, used …
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Pictures from the sea (literally, as far as fixer concerns)

Today I will post some pictures, that show how much fun experimenting with Caffenol can be. Igor says: “These pictures were taken about 3 …
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Rollei Retro 100 Tonal

Recently I wrote an article about an extremely cheap film, the wonderful Lucky SHD 100. Today I will post some images from a film that is on …
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Lucky SHD 100 – film can not be cheaper

I got a testbatch from MACO of Lucky SHD 100, a very popular Film used by Photography students in the UK. No wonder, this film is almost …
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The Delta Recipe Goes Standard.

We have received several comments, that teaspoon measuring is not the preferred way in mixing up your caffenol brew, as it is very …
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Matchbox Pinhole & Caffenol

Caffenol Reader and Lomography member Hana (http://www.lomography.com/homes/hilarion) sent us her results of a matchbox pinhole camera. …
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Happy New Year!

It’s been a busy year for caffenol, and 2011 will not calm down, that’s for sure. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you …
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2010

Caffenol as paper developer

Caffenol-C in all variants makes a wonderful developer for negative film and if used carefully, it can be used for nearly any film speed and …
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caffenomatography

If you are new to film developing, or just new to caffenol developing you can find plenty of ressources on the internet and read your way …
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Action!

I cleaned up my camera cabinet yesterday and stumbled upon my Action sampler camera where I remembered I shot some film with already. My …
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Scan VS print

Yes, the title of this post looks confusing, because of course scanning is an input process and printing is an output process. Ad it’s even …
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Density

If you read a bit about caffenol development or development in general, you will quickly learn phrases like “my negatives came out very …
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Caffeafine (Using Caffenol-C as 2 step developer)

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 …
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Kodak T-MAX – from T-Grain to Coffee granules

Some 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 …
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The Espresso Camera

Small, black, fast. This is how you can describe the Revue 35CC. The camera was also sold as Chinon Bellami and has a very unique opening …
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Smena Symbol – The other LOMO

I 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 …
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Harmony Recipe

Josh Harmon was kind enough to share his caffenol recipe and sent me two nice pictures, developed in caffenol. They show how flexible …
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Goodbye Leica

I had a Leica M6 for loan for quite some time, but gave it back recently. What can I say about this camera? It’s beautiful, gorgeous and so …
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Stars galore!

So we finally found a day, where there are clear skies and packed our car with some Equipment. As Wolfgang bought a new 200mm Newton …
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Found film

On a recent flea-market I bought a Revue 35CC with some Film inside for very, very little money. The camera had a stuck shutter, so I took …
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Neutral Color in B&W

I have a fair amount of Kodak Professional Portra 160 NC (Neutral Color) but never tried it out. Having still the Hartblei Tilt-Shift on my …
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Instant?

Here is the result of developing an instant film in Caffenol. The Film is a Polaroid PolaPan 35mm: Polaroid PolaPan 35mm I first tried if …
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The Delta Recipe (Delta-STD)

My Favourite B&W Film is Ilford Professional Delta 400 for the moment. I really like the grain shape of this film: soft and round. …
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