Thanks Tom

[neelin]

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for re-interestiing me in non-digital photography. Something was missing in my life after analog, and I'm back and really enjoying this.

I always missed my lonely Rollei 35 tucked away in a drawer, along with a Contax G1. I did the nasty & cooked up some paRodinal with acetaminophen, that's after I had an espresso developer.

I put up sample results from my first 2 rolls developed myself after a 30+ year hiatus! Thanks Tom.

Caffenol & paRodinal

robert in winnipeg

 

[Al Kaplan]

Caffinol, huh. I'm sticking with D-76 1:1. Coffee is way too valuable to waste. Now you got me to wondering (my sick mind is oh so good at that). Would artsy photographers be willing to pay $25 for a GREEN pouch? Starbucks 76? At least you'd be able to find photo chemicals every few miles in a lot of cities.

 

[neelin]

Caffinol, huh. I'm sticking with D-76 1:1. Coffee is way too valuable to waste. Now you got me to wondering (my sick mind...

Not half as sick as mine.....Use Kopi Luwak, the world's most expensive developer from brew cycled through the human digestive system.

Robert

 

[anoldsock]

Welcome back! Although, I would say you prolly never left (I always missed my lonely Rollei 35 tucked away in a drawer) 🙂🙂🙂

 

[Tom A]

Robert. welcome back to the fold of the chemically dependency! I was just reading about Lomography today. There are 1 million adherents to this "cult" and even if they only use 2-3 rolls/year - that is 3 million rolls of film! We are not alone, though we might expect more from our optics than the Lomographers do.
Inherently, there is something satisfying in controlling the process from almost start to finish. To truly do it, we should of course coat our own film (and make our own gelatin from the bones of dead cows). That might take it to far though.
If I had to go back to making a living from pictures, I would use digital as that is what 90% of the clients would want to have - BUT even so, there would always be a rangefinder along with black/white in it.
We have almost Winnipeg weather here today (by Vancouver standards at least -9C and SNOW!). Makes it tough to convince myself to go out and shoot in that stuff! There was a reason for leaving places like Sweden, Finland and Toronto behind - snow was a major one!

 

[tbm]

I printed three rolls of Acros 100 film in my darkroom yesterday, an effort that took 9 hours because they were exposed indoors with flash which always takes longer to finalize and perfect at the enlarger. It is an assignment a company hired me to do on a non-fee basis. Was I happy? Hell, yes--I was elated! Watching the finalized prints appear in the developer tray was no less exciting than it was when I helped my father do the same thing in the late 1950s when I was under 10 years old! What truly added to the excitement and joy was, as usual, the incredible, amazing detail the Leica lenses I used produced on the emulsion. Breathtaking and life-like! Making prints in my darkroom is akin to busy meditation.

 

[Damaso]

I recently got my first Rapidwinder and I have to say it is fantastic! I don't know how as a left eye shooter I ever got along without it. I love the way that it balances my M.

Thanks Tom!