Strasbourg botanical institute – Minox 35 GL – TMAX 400 pushed at 800 ISO in Caffenol A picture from last year from the Strasbourg botanical institute, under a heavy June sky, with my always available and reliable Minox 35 camera. It is also my first attempt to push TMAX 400 in Caffenol.
Puteaux – Hasselblad 500C Distagon 50mm – TMAX 400
Courbevoie – Hasselblad 500C Distagon 50mm – ILFORD FP4+
Puteaux – Hasselblad 500C Distagon 50mm – ACROS 100 First photo of a new series about the direct suburbs of Paris financial district of La Défense: Fabourgs de l’Arche.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Bessa R / Color Skopar 35mm – Rollei RPX100 / D76 1+1
A few months ago, it was Anna Atkins’ 216th birthday. Do not pretend you know her, her name did not quite survive in notoriety all these years. She was a great scientist: at the London Botanic Society, as one of the first women ever admitted, she documented and illustrated biology research works and assembled herbariums that […]
Canal Saint-Martin, Paris – Voigtlander Bessa-L / Color Skopar 35mm – Kodak TRIX 400 Homemade PC Stock
If you read my blog — thank you for that, you saw that the Meopta Flexaret VI I own was not working anymore, which is a shame since I really like that camera. Shadowed by the legendary Rolleiflex, the Czech Meopta Flexaret were luxurious, discrete, twin-lens cameras at least as mechanically complex as the Rolleiflex. It […]
Caffenol is an homemade film developer made out from everyday household products, and mostly regular coffee. It was invented by Dr. Williams from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Technical Photography 1995 Class had to create a “non traditional” developer as an assignment. It resulted in what would become Caffenol. That was it. Around 2000, the internet adopted the formula […]
Since 2012, I stopped printing pictures at home. Too complicated? Too time-consuming? I quite do not remember but the fact is I only developed films and scanned negatives. After all that time, I felt the need to be able to accomplish again the whole process, from the photo shoot to the final print. In 2015, one […]
