• 1081: Glendale, CO. I-25. Swetsville Zoo.
  • 1077: Downtown Denver.

Both rolls are HP5+ exposed at 3200.

Caffenol C-L: 8g washing soda, 6g ascorbic acid, 11g iodized salt, 20g Folger’s instant coffee in 68-degree water to 500mL. Upped the amount of salt because most of the grain in the last 3-stop-pushed HP5+ was in the sky, and I hope that a restrainer will hold some of that back. Upped the vitamin C a little because I’m hoping it will help with the underdevelopment in rolls 1088/87. Upping the time and changing the agitation regimen, too.

Pre-wet film ~20 min while mixing up Caffenol: added ingredients in order, stirring and shaking vigorously, then let sit 5 min before pouring out pre-wetting water and pouring in developer. Agitated 30x over first 60 seconds, let sit 1 minute, then agitated 30x over next sixty seconds. After that, agitated gently 5x at top of every 15 min to total developing time of 90 min. For last 45 minutes, let container sit upside-down in attempt to compensate for problem that roll on bottom seems to be better developed much of the time.

Disposed of developer, then rinsed film repeatedly in 68-degree tap water until water came out perfectly clear, then allowed film to rinse in sink, trickling over, two more minutes. Fixed in Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+4 for 7 minutes, turning 10x over 15 seconds at the top of the minute. (That now makes 20 rolls of film in this fixer, 10 after replenishment.) Drained fixer back into jar.

Rinsed by putting one pump water in tank, filling tank with water and agitating 5x, then draining and refilling and agitatiting 10x, then draining and filling and agitating 20x, then draining and letting water trickle into the open tank for 10 minutes.

Many negatives are, unsurprisingly, quite underexposed; but many came out quite well, and the photos of the face sculpture downtown, for instance, are quite pleasing. In some cases, HDR-based processing of .dng scans restored a surprising amount of detail; but this was not effective in many others.

All in all, another reminder that PUSHING FILM IS BAD.