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Chris Gavin
Junior
Posts: 4
From: London, UK
Registered: Sep 2013
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posted September 06, 2013 06:17 AM
Hello everyone. Thanks for the nice welcome here...
A few questions have come up in response to my first post, so I'll try to help out as follows.
For the Caffenol film processing I've been doing, I've been using the 'Caffenol C-M' recipe published by Reinhold. The link to that recipe and more details here... http://caffenol.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/caffenol-c-m-recipe.html , but basically, the developer is made like this...
1. 1 litre water
2. 100 ml washing-soda or 54 gramms
3. 16 ml vitamin-C or 16 gramms
4. 160 ml coffee or 40 gramms
As I say, I've only been using this for BW negative film, but I've heard that other kinds of film (even reversal and colour films) might be processed this way (giving BW neg. results probably).
My 'Wall of Death' film was processed at home (in short lengths) with this Caffenol C-M recipe, and also DIY digitized (in various ways)... The film strips were flatbed scanned, the full-frame clips were frame by frame digitized with a stepper motor/DSLR macro arrangement.
I'm still working on better digitizing methods.
On my website I only mention Kodak colour reversal films, because in recent years that's all I've been using...
I made my 'Enfield' film with Kodak 100D.
Other reversals are indeed available, but these seem to be from the more niche suppliers and somewhat more expensive too...
But yes, I will revise the text on my site to reflect the other possibilities and perhaps I'll try them one day.
I do plan to try colour neg soon, because I've seen some great results from others using it. I've bought some Kodak Vision 3 200T colour negative recently, but am yet to try it out.
For my home processing experiments I'm using Argenti brand BW neg. film. (I believe this a Super 8 packaging of APX100 film.)
This is relatively cheap to buy (from http://18frames.co.uk) and the ability to process it easily at home makes it pretty much the cheapest Super 8 option available. The film is processed just like stills film at room temperature and the chemicals (especially if using Caffenol) are cheap and not as nasty as those needed for reversal and colour films.
For film scanning to data, apart from my DIY efforts, I've used a couple of services over the last few years. Uppsala Bildtecknik in Sweden is good. http://www.uppsalabildteknik.com/english/ (They use the Flashcan HD), but lately I've been sending my films to http://18-frames.com in Germany (using the Muller scanner.) This service offers full HD and options for post-processing to stabilize and de-grain footage too. This is how I got the look for my 'Enfield' film.
They currently quote E12.50/50 foot roll for a 1080P scan to files. The full price list is on their site.
Hope this all helps, thanks everyone again for your interest.
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