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Coffee Anyone ?
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I’ve heard of some strange photo processes .. but is this for real ?
http://www.squidoo.com/coffeeprints
I wondered if it was an April Fool Joke – but it made lens of the day on Squidoo !
(No its not by me !)
Keith
I’ve read somwhere about developing film with coffee. Apparently it contains the necessary chemicals… I would give it a try, but I prefer drinking coffee.
I’ve never used coffee as a developer myself-
though one advantage might be the difficulty in over-developing anything-If you haven’t done much processing yet,
I’d probably steer clear of buying your chemicals in SuperValu-When are we going to see some lovely pictures then?
j
I have some stunning negatives processed the conventional way, all pure class images, I will probably set a new standard in film photography, but I don’t have a scanner, so you will have to wait a bit to see them…
… this coffee thing bugs my mind, I think I will drop in a roll of delta 3200 in my mug the next time I’m making coffee and we’ll see what happens.
I’ve seen your scanner-
very nice it is too-Get some stiff black card, A1 or so, and a sharp knife, and cut it in two-
cut a rectangle out of each, same size as your image,
and sandwich the film between them.Find an anglepoise lamp, and light a large sheet of paper with it-
then point your D200 scanner at it-Place your silver sandwich between your scanner and the light,
making sure to keep everything parallel, then hit the scan button-You should end up with some pretty low contrast images,
but its one way to get the pictures on the computer, in the short term-You can even use a higher magnification,
and stitch two halves together…This may not be good enough for many-
where there’s a will, there’s a wont-
but its not a bad stop-gap…just be careful of stray light, and flare-
and there’s plenty more ways to get the same result,
with stuff you probably have hanging about the house…j
Hi Keith,
I read about coffee processing a good while ago, so it’s definitely not a joke. As far as i remember you had to add something more to make the solution alkaline, but I am not 100% positive about that. You might want to check out this thread: http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=004sG6Afraid not Sharon-
I don’t have an original Anglepoise-
that’s the second picture on a google image search…A slightly later model became a movie star…
jb7 wrote:
I’d probably steer clear of buying your chemicals in SuperValu
j
Ah go on J
http://photo-utopia.blogspot.com/2007/09/developing-in-coffee.html:lol: :lol: :lol:
I have known about the coffee thing for a long time-
and I’ve used vinegar as a stop bath in the past,
but that’s not a particularly critical part of the process-Just what do you use for fixer?
Maybe I’d need to ask the manager at SuperValu,
I reckon that might be beyond the expertise of the girls on the till…j
Ah you might have to drive down to the beach, seawater was used years ago for fixer. Call down on the way back from SuperValu :wink:
Fintan wrote:
seawater was used years ago for fixer
Really?
I hadn’t heard about that one-
Any tips about concentration?
would I have to boil some water off?I suppose there are lots of different ions floating around in there, now that I think about it-
And I suppose the usual rules?
Twice clearing time?Its just a little bit tempting now-
though I don’t use instant coffee myself-Arabica or Robusta?
Milk and sugar?
Powers and cream?j
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