My analog journey
My last post was on Saturday 9 May 2015. A lot has happened ever since I started my analogue journey.
Back then I wrote "about me"
"Me, just another of those thousands of photo enthusiasts. To become a better photographer I have set my Digital camera a side and stepped in to the world of analogue photography. I have followed a Darkroom Photography course developing film and bought 2 cameras for analogue photography. The cameras i use are the Olympus Om1 and the Om3, the 3 has spot metering which i think is an advantage shooting film."
Have I become a better Photographer by making images mainly with film?
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision
quote by Ragu Rai
A better photographer
I have followed several Photographic courses; see the updated “about me”Also the bathroom is converted into a Darkroom, guess what? (My wife was not happy). Who prints his images these days? Now I do, not when I was shooting digital. I even learned how to make prints with alternative developing processes, why? well, because of curiosity and great interest in the historical Photographic processes. I was about time to take photography serious
Developing film
As promised with the last post, I would provide information about film development. I never taught that it would be with instant coffee rather than a commercial film developer.Just the idea that you can develop the film with household products was exciting; I had to try this.
After some investigation, I went to the supermarket to find the ingredients, mixed these, pour it into the developing tank and process the film.
Soda crystals
After the process, I opened the tank and to my surprise! There were no images.. The strip was clear, two rolls of film with no images. What went wrong? After reading the Cookbook I found the culprit, “The sodium carbonate” The soda crystals I bought from the supermarket hold a certain amount of water with the result that the requested amount of soda for the receipt was wrong.After the learning curve from "Soda, Myth and Truth", I bought soda ash online which is the 99% or 100% sodium carbonate. Finally I was able to develop excellent negatives with this dark developer.
The way I mix and process film with Caffenol C
is the same way you will develop film with an conventional developer.
More information about Caffenol
I found this interesting article about before caffenol, a research that was done by "The Technical Photographic Chemistry Class" for non traditional developers.
Read the Story about Harold, the boy who discovered Caffenol C
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The print in
Caffenol C developed
