Experiments with Tea
I decided to have a go at developing some film with strong tea.
I shot some images using a Yashica 635 and 120 Ilford HP5 film.
Normally I have a tendency to overexpose images on this camera, so I used a higher aperture that I normally would.
I made a pot of about a pint of tea using 20 out-of-date teabags, a handful of washing soda and some vitamin C.
The mixture was warm when it was used (not hot) and I left it for 30 minutes to develop.
This is the only image that is anywhere near usable as all the negatives are far too dark but by holding an extremely bright 28 LED torch behind them, an image is just visible.
Needless to say my negative scanners ignored the images, so this was taken with a torch and a Fuji camera on super macro.
I rinsed the negs with a bleach solution and whilst it destroyed some of the finer detail, it helped to let some light through on the bolder parts but nothing fantastic.
Experiments with Tea
I decided to have a go at developing some film with strong tea.
I shot some images using a Yashica 635 and 120 Ilford HP5 film.
Normally I have a tendency to overexpose images on this camera, so I used a higher aperture that I normally would.
I made a pot of about a pint of tea using 20 out-of-date teabags, a handful of washing soda and some vitamin C.
The mixture was warm when it was used (not hot) and I left it for 30 minutes to develop.
This is the only image that is anywhere near usable as all the negatives are far too dark but by holding an extremely bright 28 LED torch behind them, an image is just visible.
Needless to say my negative scanners ignored the images, so this was taken with a torch and a Fuji camera on super macro.
I rinsed the negs with a bleach solution and whilst it destroyed some of the finer detail, it helped to let some light through on the bolder parts but nothing fantastic.