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Coffee Developers

Does TriX like Caffenol?

#1
While visiting my aging mother in 2003, I think, I somehow bought a TriX 135 roll, surprisingly, and went at it in her garden, without much care (with the pictures), and forgot about it.

Well, now back into B&W, I found the cartridge a few weeks ago, dev'd it in semi-stand Caffenol CL.
One picture of a large cherry tree is just stunning, almost like an abstract, and another, with low available light in her storage room, her needles, ribbons, and elastics stash, also nice texture.

Granted these were lucky pictures on neglected old film, but is there a known affinity between TriX and Caffenol?
 
#2
Even without asking you for a visual, AFAIK, your film sample may not be the same as Tri-X currently available. I am not aware of any special affinity between this film/developer combo, but if there was, nobody would be able to confirm it today. So what is the point? Besides, right now Tri-X is one of higher priced 400-speed films, and there is absolutely no incentive to experiment with it. In my experience, it does well in D-76 1:1 as intended by the manufacturer.
 
#3
Tri-X wroks well in Caffenol CL stand and in its colder version CLCS !



Plaubel Makina 67 • Nikon 80mm F2.8
Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Caffenol CLCS (Cold Start) stand 80min @15-20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 2400dpi with Silverfast AI Studio

Neuchâtel • Suisse

Caffenol CLCS
500 ml Filtered Water
8gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
5gr Vitamin C
0.5gr KBr
20gr Instant coffee ("Cora")
60 sec. slow agitations then let stand for 79 minutes

Even at 100 ISO ! CLCS 60 min.

 
#4
^^ Very nice!

A detail in recipe above:
"filtered water"
Do you mean a Brita type filtering, or something else?

I usually try to have my lab water session sit in an open container for two days, hoping some chlorination gases would dissipate.
Same with fish pond water, which then gets the added dechlorination conditioner.
 
#5
TriX is an old style silver-emulsion, it should do fine in Caffenol.
Cool pictures!
I see you add a lot of vitamin C (10 g/L) which should also contribute to increase the development.
 
#6
^^ Very nice!

A detail in recipe above:
"filtered water"
Do you mean a Brita type filtering, or something else?
Yes. This is only needed when your public water doesn't come from a spring nearby...
TriX is an old style silver-emulsion, it should do fine in Caffenol.
Cool pictures!
I see you add a lot of vitamin C (10 g/L) which should also contribute to increase the development.
Thank you ! It is the standard CL recipe. You can find it in the Caffenol CookBook.
 
#7
WoW! had not seen that book,
no mention of Donald Qualls (silent oberver) or Patrick Gainer!
 
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