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After finishing the gigabitfilm (see post on my website) during the 10K last Sunday, l loaded a roll of Ilford FP4 into the Konica C35v.
The Konica C35v is a zone focus 35mm viewfinder camera, though it looks similar to a rangefinder. It is fully automatic and features a 38mm f/2.8 lens. This camera, manufactured in 1974 should use mercury 1.35v cell batteries. With a modern 1.5v battery of equivalent size, the meter is two thirds of a stop too high. This was easily corrected using the meter adjustment.
As it was only a 12exp roll, I had intentions not to waste ID11, but try Caffenol for the first time.
Caffenol is a homemade developer, usually made from Coffee, washing soda and vitamin C. There are many different variations, some to individual films. For this film, I used 4 tsp of coffee, 2.5 tsp of washing soda and 1g of ascorbic acid powder before topping it up to 300ml with water.
After brewing for two minutes, I poured it in and developed for 4:11 minutes at 33°. They were then scanned using a Plustek OpticFilm 7400.
| Brand: | Plustek |
| Lens: | 38mm f/2.8 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Focal Length: | 38,, |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Aperture: | f/8-11 |
| ISO: | 125 |
| Exposure Mode: | Auto (default) |
| Title: | Lincoln 10K | |
| Username: | 
WilliamRoar | |
| Uploaded: | 31 Mar 2012 - 7:31 PM | |
| Tags: | Black & white, Caffenol, Coffee, Film, Fp4, Ilford, Rangefinder, Viewfinder | |
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Gosh, chemicals and stuff! 
I've no clue about any of that but I do think this is an excellent photograph. You've really caught the atmosphere and you can almost hear the crown cheering. Among all the chaos, runner number 1036 manages to be a clear subject but, at the same time, there's a huge amount of peripheral interest to keep the viewer busy.
If you want to add any "digital darkroom" processing, you could give this a bit of a curves lift, since the main area is quite dark. I'd also be tempted to crop a bit off the top -- maybe half the space above the lamp post? -- and a corresponding amount off the left-hand side because it looks a bit odd to have nearly all that tree on the right but just be missing the very top of it. Cropping a bit more of it away turns it into a deliberate compositional decision rather than a bit of an accident.
You have a great eye so I look forward to seeing more.
Dave.
paulbroad wrote:
> It is April first you know.
The photo was posted at 7:31pm on March 31st in the UK. And try googling for caffenol.
Dave.
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