Caffenol

I tried my hand at homebrew developers last night with some Caffenol and Tri-X. I got the recipe from digitaltruth.com but it is floating around all over the net. It's pretty easy to make, but very smelly, much worse than other photo chemicals. It also took a very long time to develop, 35 minutes in the tank instead of the usual 6-8 it takes with other developers. All-in-all it took about 1 hour from setup to tear-down. The coffee stained the film brown, but when scanned in monochrome (or printed in a darkroom) the stain doesn't matter. In fact I've read the stain acts as a contrast filter on the enlarger.  Anyway, enough about that, here are two of the pics, scanned as a color positive to show the stain and as a b&w negative to show the actual photo.  These were taken on a 1960s vintage Voigtlander Bessa I folder.

 

The zone focus attributes to the fuzzyness of  Keddy's head.  This camera is great for sunny days, though.