19 July, 2024
Rodinal Tests – Temperature, Grain and Contrast
Rodinal is a high acutance (sharpness) developer. High acutance means grain as well as the image is more clearly defined. So if I develop at different temperatures either the gr...
17 July, 2024
How to Make Tea… PC-TEA that is
I have been developing my own film for a few years now and am slightly addicted to the process. There is just something magic about loading your film into the spools adding the ...
27 June, 2024
My First use of Caffenol
There is lots of advice on this on the web but here is some more, in case it is helpful to anyone. I recently started to use film again and, as it was inexpensive, invested in a...
Grant Haist claimed some time ago that you could develop film in almost anything, including pee. His words echoed across the internet and IRL when I shared the project details t...
14 December, 2023
Agfa Copex Rapid developed in H&W Control
The tantalising mysteries of microfilms (AKA ‘copy’ or ‘document’ films) grabbed my attention almost as soon as I re-entered the world of film a few short years ago, precipitate...
2 December, 2023
Development Tests, Part 2: Adox Rodinal 400:1, Fomapan 100 Classic and TTArtisans 50mm f1.4
I rephotographed some earlier images in good sunlight (versus cloudy dull before). The same film stock was shot on a Leica MP with a TTArtisans 50mm f1.4 lens and film developed...
25 November, 2023
Development Tests: Rodinal 200:1 and re-used 400:1
How cheaply can you develop a film? Ten cents a roll? One cent??? I usually develop film in Adox Rodinal (now five years old) diluted 100:1 in water at 15-24 degrees and stand d...
2 November, 2023
Hotel Darkroom: Developing Film on the Road
In 2019, I went on a short stint to Edmonton to take some photos of my old stomping grounds: Whyte Avenue. As a teenager in the 1990s, this was where you’d find me. Sipping a co...