Edible Film Developers

[DarkroomExperimente]

ok...at approx 40g/liter the sodium sulfite definitely makes the negatives a bit less dense/less fog

still wet...so only had a quick peek

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

did a test with & without a small amount of calcium ascorbate

was assuming I'd end up with sodium ascorbate in solution & a precipitate of calcium carbonate...

there did seem to be a white precipitate...but no change in development...

does calcium ascorbate simply not work at ALL...or did I use too little? it was also old and off-white...not really brown...but not white either

 

[Photo Engineer]

Who knows without a chemical analysis?

PE

 

[Alan Johnson]

Can I see the menu again. have forgotten what is in this dish.

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

the most recent item on the menu was 500ml pineapple juice with 2 tbsp sodium carbonate with 0.25g KBr

it was then divided into two portions...one of which got 1/4 teaspoon of calcium ascorbate

Tri-x developed for one hour....looked great...but no difference between the two

gonna try again tonight but with ascorbic acid

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

Who knows without a chemical analysis?

PE

this is one of those moments where I think of you as the experienced French Chef...and I'm the 5 year old in the back yard making mud pies

 

[Photo Engineer]

I'm a pretty good cook as well. Most Organic Chemists and Chemical Engineers that I know like cooking on days off. However, I prefer a Pina Colada rather than a Pina Ascorbate! Too sour.

I enjoyed working in the lab just as you have been doing but with conventional (read - salable) chemicals to make new developers, fixes, bleaches, blixes, hardeners and stabilizers. Lots of fun.

PE

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

I'm a pretty good cook as well. Most Organic Chemists and Chemical Engineers that I know like cooking on days off. However, I prefer a Pina Colada rather than a Pina Ascorbate! Too sour.

I enjoyed working in the lab just as you have been doing but with conventional (read - salable) chemicals to make new developers, fixes, bleaches, blixes, hardeners and stabilizers. Lots of fun.

PE

actually.....now I guess it's time to admit it...I'm really trying to reverse-engineer your Lasagna recipe

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

meant to test with 1/4 tsp ascorbic acid per 250ml of dev....did 1 tsp by mistake...dropped dev time in half to 30 min and WOW...finally real solid black...neg looks great

negs developed in same dev but w/o AA look thin but fine otherwise since they were underdeveloped

 

[Photo Engineer]

My wife's lasagna is the best I have ever eaten! At a KRL party at our home, several people asked for more and more and more until we ran out. Black Russians didn't hurt though!

PE

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

Best Lasagna I ever had was my mother's recipe...but cooked by my sister who bought the highest quality ingredients...

 

[removed account4]

Best Lasagna I ever had was my mother's recipe...but cooked by my sister who bought the highest quality ingredients...

but did she use hp5+ and ...

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

I can report that aquarium dechlorinating drops do seem to fix film...but it took about an hour before I noticed the film clearing...

so...clearly not a practical option...but....if you're super desperate and don't mind buying about 50 tiny bottles and waiting several hours...I guess you could do it

 

[Rudeofus]

I can report that aquarium dechlorinating drops do seem to fix film...but it took about an hour before I noticed the film clearing...

I looked into the composition of various water dechlorinating liquids, and there appears to exist a range of products - some of them useful for our purpose here, others not. Those which appear to work as fixers contain Sodium Thiosulfate, which is far less soluble than Ammonium Thiosulfate. You'd have to use it diluted no more than 1:1 in order to get reasonable fixing speeds.

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

I tested 2 different brands undiluted...one worked VERY slowly....the other didn't seem to work at all

pool supply places sell what seems to be pure sodium thiosulfate powder....

I stopped myself from ordering from the pool supply place because I was reminded of something a boat designer once said...I forget his name, but a successful boat designer was saying that he likes to divide his time equally between sailing boats, designing them, and building them...he said when he builds a boat his goal is to build the boat quickly so he can start sailing it...he said some boatyards are full of people who stretch out their boatbuilding projects for years & sometimes never finish them because they want to make everything on the boat themselves...a syndrome he called the "I even make my own shoelaces disease".....so for know I'm not gonna try to make homemade fixer, although the temptation is there

 

[Rudeofus]

Well, this wouldn't be "homemade fixer" anyway, because all these pool support products provide you with is a source of Thiosulfate. Getting one of these products may be easier on a weekend than getting regular fixer, but other than that it's the same chemical compound doing the fixing work.

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

Turmeric develops film!!!...took 2 hours and the film has a strong orange tint

might be perfect for a reversal process...nice orange slides

No...I didn't use the K-P rule or anything....

I have a friend who cooks great Chicken Curry & his wife was cracking jokes about my developer experiments...so I had to retaliate

 

[removed account4]

AND tumeric is good for psyciatric health so your film's orange glow is a HAPPY orange glow

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

well...seems that the brightly colored circumin in turmeric is photosensitive....it fades when exposed to bright light:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3744901/

gonna do cyanotypes with friends tomorrow...maybe I also need to do some Currytypes

 

[pdeeh]

Turmeric is also an indicator, albeit not very well calibrated ....

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

soaking catnip in water/alcohol to try that soon...the active ingredient doesn't look promising...but trying anyway

if it works it'll be the perfect dev for kitty pix

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

adrenaline, dopamine and L-Dopa look like they'd work

L-dopa seems to be available at places like GNC as a health supplement...so I might try it

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

OK...so if dopamine, L-dopa, and andrenaline are catecholamines....and catechol has some toxicity issues...I'm wondering wouldn't L-dopa, for example, be safer than catechol?

and what are the issues with catechol other than dermatitis?

it would be interesting if these catecholamines developed like catechol but were safer

 

[DarkroomExperimente]

Catnip doesn't work.....was hoping since it's related to mint that it would...but noooooooooo

so Rusty the cat was posing today fer nuthin'

 

[Rudeofus]

OK...so if dopamine, L-dopa, and andrenaline are catecholamines....and catechol has some toxicity issues...I'm wondering wouldn't L-dopa, for example, be safer than catechol?

Many people have the impression that if a compound already exists in your body then it can't be all that harmful. If you compare the MSDS of Catechol with that of L-Dopa, you can see that

1. Catechol is problematic with regard to skin exposure. Apparently it is absorbed by skin and causes trouble there.
2. L-Dopa is "Very hazardous in case of ingestion", but less of a problem with skin adsorption.

I guess there isn't really all that much advantage to L-Dopa, and in terms of cost it appears to be inferior to Catechol.