Processing with Coffenol/ DIY developers

Ingredient –

•        40g instant coffee
•     54g washing soda crystals
•     6g pure vitamin C powder

Creating the developer –

Put 800ml into a bucket, then put 40g coffee in a container and add 200ml of boiling water, add this mixture to the water. Then add 54g of washing soda crystals, stir until it has dissolved. And finally add the vitamin C powder.

Developing process –

This homemade developer should be at 27 degrees (this is only when you pour the developer into the tank it will cool down). Develop the film for 22 minutes and agitate every ten seconds.

Once the 22 minutes is over pour the coffee out of the tank, rinse well and fix, we fixed our film for 5 minutes continually agitating for the whole time. After this rinse again and then dry.

This type of film processing is very useful to me and I have taken away an important new skill that I had not even considered of doing and will use in the future.

When doing this process we had a difficulty getting the exact measurements and took longer than it probably should have however that was down to the scales we used, when doing this again I would use reliable scales.