Caffenol – So Many Stars

Caffeinated

shot in my small studio on 4×5 film, this negative was developed in Caffenol, a developer based on coffee, sodium carbonate, and vitamin C. development was at 72°F for 12 minutes, a bit warmer than i’d tried before, attempting to get a little more density on the negative. and i did.

Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results

I wanted to experiment with the recipe for a coffee-based film developer commonly called Caffenol. Dirk Essl at caffenol.org does an excellent job of keeping track of development times for lots of different films that can be developed with Caffenol. However, most of the films that have been developed using this unique developer were filmsContinue reading “Fomapan 400 in Caffenol-STD – Experiments and Results”

Good ’til the Last Drop

inspired by the writing over at caffenol.org, i decided to try my hand a developing some negatives using their coffee infused developer recipe! i wandered about the grounds of the old Bethlehem Steel plant and set up with my Shen Hao 4×5 and some sheets of Fomapan 400. i simply metered for 400 speed andContinue reading “Good ’til the Last Drop”