(Freestyle photo in SoCal now carries Bellini’s ECN-2 chemicals. So now I have a mini lab at home where I can process, well, almost everything. All of these, and black and white in different chemicals as well)
Hard to believe that a year ago I didn’t know how to do any of this and now I have strong opinions and brand and product preferences on all of it
Tomorrow I get to do something fun: I get to lick the science!
My last bottle of DD-X developer expired (quite spectacularly, I had to get a hacksaw to open it and add it to the disposal container), but I've got ONE roll of film left to process.
Instant coffee
Ascorbic acid powder (vitamin C)
Washing soda (sodium carbonate)
Two of those, are lickable. That's the delta recipe for #caffenol, although I'm using it for HP5+ not Delta, it's still effective. I could've gone with Caffenol-C-H instead but that needs potassium bromide which can't be delivered as quickly and I'm not a patient person (hah!)
A student protest -- the first, I think, in the history of the college. Apparently something to do with discussion of the school's academic problems in the student newspaper.
This is what student protests looked like before administrators started to use armed force to suppress them.
I send Community Letters every last Tuesday of every month where I share the latest news, events, and stories from the #filmphotography community.
In this 61st edition, I talk about various film developers (inc. Sativa Cannanol), #Fujifilm axing another film, new apps for film photographers, and a new colour 4x5 film: