Category Archives: Film Photography

Darkroom Notes, Video

Caffenol vs HC-110

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In my new video I compared Caffenol and HC-110 as film developers. Caffenol is a film developer made from household products, usually by mixing coffee, washing soda, vitamin C powder and water together. As mentioned in the video, I didn’t use vitamin C in this particular experiment.

The results are quite interesting. With Caffenol, the negative has a yellow brownish tint and is less dense, meaning the negative is less developed. As a result, the end image looks darker than HC-110 counterpart.

screenshot from the video

The grains with Caffenol are also much more pronounced. It is more obvious in the 35mm Tri-X negatives.

screenshot from the video

You can check out my video for full observations. To conclude it is quite a fun experiment to have (especially you have a lot more time during quarantine).

Stay safe and keep shooting!

Film Photography, Video

Plum Blossoms on Provia 100F

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How are you all holding up? Hope you are doing well and keeping yourself sane.

Sharing a roll of 120 Provia 100F I shot back in February in my new video. There is this plum tree in my area, apparently quite popular among photographers, it would blossom every year around late winter.

On a day in February, I went out and shot this plum tree, here are some of the images.

Pentax 6×7 MLU | SMC 200mm f/4 | Fujifilm Provia 100F

Film Photography

Stay Home and Shoot Eggs

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How are you doing? I hope you are doing well and staying safe.

Loosely speaking, I have been working from home since February. One of the positive things about this is I have a lot more time on hand to do and create stuff. Along side photography, I have started printing and baking a lot more. (Baking kills time very well)

Finding things to shoot at home can be challenging. This is one of those light bulb moment, when I warmed the eggs to room temperature…

Mamiya RB67 Pro-S | Mamiya-Sekor C 127mm f/3.8 | Fomapan 200 | HC-110H