coffee developer

[draggingtheshutter]

has anyone tried using this procedure in developing negatives? soaking the negative in lukewarm coffee for between 30-40 minutes and a rough image will appear on the negative. not sure about the whole process, but wondering if anyone here has tried it.

[David A. Goldfarb]

You need to add an alkali to the coffee to get it to work, but yes, coffee and other things will develop film. Google "caffenol," and you'll turn up threads on photo.net and apug.org and a few other places.

[Daniel Grenier]

but do you need de-caff to de-velop ?

[CG]

There are a few coffee based developers at:

www.digitaltruth.com/techdata/caffenol.php

Have fun,

C

[Brian Bullen]

Here is a link to my portraits page, http://www.brianbullen.com/being/being.html . All, except the last, are 8x10 x-ray film developed in caffenol as well as the prints developed in caffenol leftovers with a little dektol thrown in to speed up developing time.

[Capocheny]

Brian,

Very nice images... loved some of the portraits and landscape ones!

Cheers

[jnantz]

most of my film i process in caffenol c
these days, i throw a bit of ansco 130 in to boost
the contrast ...

its good stuff, too bad it doesnt' smell better!

[Brian Bullen]

Brian,

Very nice images... loved some of the portraits and landscape ones!

Cheers

Thank you very much! It's always great to hear a compliment.

[draggingtheshutter]

thank you everyone for the information. this is a wonderful forum. i would never get so many replies and answers anywhere else this quickly. has anyone found that a certain film works better than another in using this type of development?

[jnantz]

i've used a lot of different films in coffee.
trix, plusx, tmx,tmy,tmz, ilford fp..,
forte, foma, efke/adox ...
they all seem to like it ..
i don't enlarge these negatives much,
or i make contact prints with them
because the grain and stain are kind of funky ..

-- john