I wet print always. I only scan if I want to share digitally on here, or other networks. I think is sacrilege to shoot film and then process the image digitally - kinda defeats the original purpose.
My film of choice is TriX. When the Kodak debacle happened last year, or year before I tried to move to HP5 but didn't get very far.
Its been a year since I shot anything, and I just bought 5 rolls of 35mm and 5 rolls of 120 to get myself back into the groove of things.
hi christopher ..
i don't know, maybe i'd make the "standard" caffenol c
maybe use the teaspoon measure method to make it easy for yourself
add an extra scoop of coffee and washing soda and vit c
( more ingredients for the standard amount of water ... so its "a little stronger" ) ..
and then a splash of your standard print developer ( stock, un-dilute ) ..
i use ansco 130 because i have it lying around, but i am sure anything will work
( its just to give it a boost / kick )
if you are using tri x, rate it at about 150 or 100 and bracket a little bit
and develop your film by agitating it for about a minute, letting it stand 15 mins, agitate again
let stand for another 12-13 mins and agitate again
for about 27 minutes ... so you will agitate at the beginning, in the middle and at the end ..
just to warn, you might get a little bromide streaking from the print developer ..
but it should give you usable negatives ...
i don't use stop bath, but rinse until the water you pour out is clear, and fix normally ...
you probably won't have coffee stained negatives but you might get nice grainy/gritty film ..
( or it might look like you processed it in d76 or id11
)
just make sure you get the right ingredients and as long as you do, you probably won't have trouble
have fuN!
john
Changed to visible navigation (and changed the front and backcover), added print and thumbs, should be easier for ipad´ers to navigate too!?!
