[alt-photo] Re: Caffenol?

[Robert Young]

> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 11:27:19 -0400
> From: azuresummer at gmail.com
> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Caffenol?
> 
> Keith,
> 
> I regularly have people come up to me after I take pictures with my 
> trusty FE2 that try to get behind me to see the picture on the "screen"
> 

Ha!  Just went through that experience yesterday (Independence Day celebration in the park).  Pentax MX with power winder instead of FE2.  Also had my Graflex Pacemaker with me and that stumped a LOT of people.  Especially the concept of sheet film and having Grafmatic backs.  :)

To keep things on topic, I've played a bit with Caffenol and found it to work reasonably well but lost something like 1-1/2 stops speed (varied by film type) and the stain seemed to be an overall cast, not proportional like you get with pyro.  Only a little bit of inspection with a densitometer, nothing exhaustive and none of it terribly scientific.  Just piddling about a few years ago because it sounded interesting.
Rob