[darkroom] First batch of colour chemistry ordered! (and tea-based caffenol success)

Brendan Seabrook brendanseabrook at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 17:44:44 EST 2015


Yay.
Thanks Sen.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Ahron Train <superatrain at gmail.com> wrote:

> Woo, awesome! I've got some random C41 rolls lying around.
>
> Was there any observable difference between tea and coffee?
>
> A Train
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Daria Juniper <daria at dangershy.ca> wrote:
>
>> Yey!  I'll have to get some C41 film meow...  Thanks you Sensens!
>>
>> And for the list:
>> Tea offers better contrast than Ilford devs and the tea variant does not
>> have a 1/4 of the pungent smell that the coffee did.  If you make it
>> though, mix 10 bags into 1L of 22C water, let steep with moderate agitation
>> for at least 15 minutes, then mix in 3x the specified amount of sodium
>> carbonate and vitamin c.
>>
>> 120 second dev time for paper.  Have not tried Caffinol-C with film yet,
>> that's to come.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb-04-2015 13:30, sen wrote:
>>
>>> I've ordered a 1L kit of E6 (colour slide film) chemistry and a 5L kit of
>>> C41 (colour negative film) chemistry from Beau Photo, they should be here
>>> early next week. Once we get some practice with this, I'll order some RA4
>>> (colour negative paper) chemistry so we can do colour prints! \o/
>>> I ordered less E6 because it doesn't have a long shelf-life and I'm not
>>> sure who other than me shoots E6. C41 seems likely to get more use. If
>>> things go well and we do end up using more E6 than I expect, we can
>>> always
>>> order a 5L kit next time :)
>>> Also, last night we tried a new variation of the caffenol process we used
>>> a few weeks ago, in an attempt to get similar results with the lab
>>> smelling less bad. It worked quite well! The prints hanging up in the
>>> darkroom right now (other than the leftmost one) were all done in the
>>> green tea caffenol, and it definitely doesn't smell as bad. I've been
>>> making notes on the caffenol sheet hanging up behind the door on what
>>> we've been using.
>>>   -sen
>>>
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