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Kodak EIR Film

On Kodak Aerochrome III Color Infrared Film…

Kodak used to make color infrared film for military and natural resources applications. The film found some limited use in fashion, portrait, and nature photography. Unfortunately for Kodak, digital photography stole the market for this film–photographers can easily use their digital cameras to create the same effect, and the military …

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Film Processing with Caffenol, Revisited

Another post about processing instructions? Yes, because a friend asked for it and I wanted to write a complete step-by-step black and white processing instruction set. While I’ll talk specifically about mixing Caffenol developer(s), this should apply to black and white processing in general. Here goes… Pre-Mix Chemicals Before you …

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Table Salt on your film?

The weather was perfect last weekend so I took my cameras out for a spin. Well, actually, I took several cameras but mostly shot with the Bronica ETRS and my new Zenzanon-PE 180mm f/4.5 lens. I had an Ilford Delta 400 on the attached back and shot it at ISO …

On Agfa Rodinal, Part 2…

I processed a couple of 120 rolls using Rodinal at 1:50 dilution last night and results looked good. The first film was Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros which I processed for 30 minutes using semi-stand development technique—continuous agitation for the first 30 seconds, followed by 5 turns every minute for 2 …

On Agfa Rodinal…

I discovered Agfa Rodinal shortly after I started processing my own film… That was around 1988. I really didn’t know much about film processing back then but I liked the way the Rodinal-processed negatives looked; the tone/contrast looked very good. The film grain gets accentuated but I didn’t really pay …