Coffee Developers

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DutchShooter

jnanian, can't see the pics, get an error if I click the link...

I just thought of a vitamin store we have here in the shopping area...gonna have a look tomorrow for vit C powder.

The posted shots are relatively clean, but some of them are full of specks (maybe bad dissolved instant coffee?): especially the last 4-5 frames (on the outside of the reel) are very bad. These also developed worse (much thinner). So next time, shaken not stirred

Something else: I really like to look of the grain of the film: would this be comparable to how the results of a staining developer would like (never tried a staining dev)?
 

DutchShooter

Just found out that the washing soda I use is the decahydrate-version: more than 50% of its weight is water compared to the usual monohydrate. I thus did the same again with another roll of APX using double the amount of washing soda (no Vitamin C yet, all I could find yesterday in the shops were tablets consisting of a lot of other things (like citric acid) in addition to the ascorbic acid itself).

I must say I was quite please with the result (APX-100 shot at EI 50 were perfect whereas in my previous test with half the washing soda I got good results with EI 25):
 

jnanian

nice dutchshooter !

sorry my image did not show up.
i just realized it is in my subscriber's gallery ..
and if you are a member, not a subscriber it won't appear ..
 

Toffle

Just saying hi here... Like everyone else, I've been more busy than I'd like, and just realized that my last serious shots and prints were over a month ago. This week might be my opportunity to get back in the darkroom and create a stink.

Cheers,
 

ags2mikon

Hello all, I tried this coffee stuff with Kodak tech pan a few years ago and I must say it was the best tech pan I did. But, the great yellow father killed it too. If you go to the figital revolution site you will see some Fuji acros that looks very good. Happy shooting
 

rustyoldbug

Hi people.

Coffee rookie here. I am gearing up to try some coffee developers, just need to pick up the washing soda from the store this afternoon. I was curious if anyone has tried any older ortho films with the caffenol? What sort of results did you get? I scavenged up a few 100' rolls of old still frozen Kodalith (6556 type III) and Kodak High Contrast Copy film (5069) and was looking for some good starting points for development times. Also wondering if it would help tame some of the contrast?...

I am heading up to Yosemite with some friends and wanted to try using some of this film at around 8-12 ASA doing some long exposures, maybe throw the ND filters on and do some really long exposures. So I figure I should spool up a few more short rolls and spend some time working out my processes before I go up there and shoot a bunch of pictures I don't want to screw up. Any input is welcome.
 

mepanom

Hi everyone, I am new in the coffee business but I do have the feeling it is going to become my favorite developer! I posted an image in the group gallery, "cat", from the first roll I developed. Ilford FP4, shot @200asa, Caffenol-C, scanned negative, no photoshop.
 

mepanom

Hey Erik, I just developed 3 Kodak Color 200 expired about a year ago in Caffenol-C and it worked great!!!!! Of course the negative is as always quite dense but it was the expected result. I used 13 mins, agitation for first minute and then 10" every minute and fixed normally. Standard receipe with double the vitamin (half a teaspoon) as found in caffenol.org.
 

gregography

I developed my first caffenol rolls yesterday using the formula for C-M. Fomapan 100. Except for the loading of the reels it all worked exactly as expected. I love that people love sharing their experiences with this kind of thing, it makes other people's lives better.
 

Ezzie

I wasn't beyond myself with joy after the first roll, but boy was I happy with the second, and third and fourth and ......., you get the picture. Someone mentioned that the pictures can take on a 3D sort of effect, and I agree. That and the smoothness of the tones, the reigning in of the highlights, the details it can dig out of the darkest shadows, its just great!
 
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