• 1078: Glendale, CO. Denver.
  • 1076: Colorado Station. Local Relic.

Not sure on developing what these rolls are, which reminds me I need to be keeping better notes. Trip back from California? Those haven’t turned up yet, but I thought they were HP5+. (There are still 15 undeveloped rolls of film of six different types, though, and not all of the HP5+ is yet developed.) Guess we’ll see. First experiment with Caffenol! First experiment with stand development! Yay!

Both Ilford FP4+ at box speed of 125. Both in metal 35mm reels in 120 tank. Pre-wet film ~20 minutes at 70 degrees.

Caffenol C-L: 16g waterfree washing soda, 10g Vitamin C, 6g iodized table salt, 40g instant coffee (Folgers). Mixed washing soda, then vitamin C, then iodized salt, mixing each and letting it dissolve completely. Added 2g instant coffee crystals, then remembered to let stand 5 minutes. Did so. Added remaning 38g of coffee crystals. Added water to 950mL (so the concentration is over by a little more than 5%, actually). Let stand five minutes. Measured temp 70 degrees. Split this 950mL batch between this tank and the next.

Poured out pre-wet water, then poured developer into tank and started timer for 70 minutes. 30 seconds in, agitated gently ten times over twenty seconds, then let stand in sink, occasionally shifting the tank slightly as I cleaned up.

Rinsed ~5 minutes in tap water at ~68 degrees, emptying container entirely multiple times. Fixed in Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+4 (that’s now 8 rolls) without performing a clearing test, agitating 10x over 20 seconds initially, then 5x over ten seconds approximately (though irregularly) at the top of every subsequent minute. Rinsed ~10 minutes in cold (60 degree) water.

IMAGES! It works! A cursory inspection shows that the negatives look nice! We’ll see how they look in the scanner. Alas, 1076 has some blodgy undeveloped bits due to film being clumped in the reels during developing, but not nearly as bad as 1073 was.

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