Hi there,
this blog will be dedicated to a wonderful film developer you can mix yourself at home with ingredients you can buy in almost any supermarket, drugstore or pharmacy. It's names are "Caffenol" and "Caffenol-C".
Added Vitamin-C improves the quality in such a degree that it rivals the best commercial developers. The posted image was made with a 65 years old camera called Voigtländer Bessa 66, it has a beautiful uncoated 4-element lens named Skopar (3.5/75), exposed on Fomapan 100 film (type 120) and developed in Caffenol-C. Details like recipe and other tech stuff later.
More to come .... Reinhold
this blog will be dedicated to a wonderful film developer you can mix yourself at home with ingredients you can buy in almost any supermarket, drugstore or pharmacy. It's names are "Caffenol" and "Caffenol-C".
Added Vitamin-C improves the quality in such a degree that it rivals the best commercial developers. The posted image was made with a 65 years old camera called Voigtländer Bessa 66, it has a beautiful uncoated 4-element lens named Skopar (3.5/75), exposed on Fomapan 100 film (type 120) and developed in Caffenol-C. Details like recipe and other tech stuff later.
More to come .... Reinhold
Hello Reinhold,
ReplyDeleteI am writing from Québec, Canada. Would you be able to tell me if this coffee technique works on colour film?
After my Aunt died I found an undeveloped Kodacolor VR film (old little 110 camera film) and am curious as to what's on it.
On the film cartridge it reads: "Cl 100. proc C-41.24 exp"
Can you advise?
Thank you. Frohe Weihnachten!
Cate
Hi Cate,
ReplyDeleteit's a regular colour negative film that can be developed by any lab that is able to process 110 film. I'm not an expert to bw-develop expired C-41 film in Caffenol, but if you want to try it I recommend regular Caffenol-C-M 15 mins 20 °C, with 5 - 10 grams/litre iodized salt.
Good luck and happy holidays - Reinhold