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@filmdev
I've added a "Recipe Finder" to FilmDev .
It's a way of determining development times for a film and developer combination. You enter a phrase like "hp5 in ddx" and then you can refine the results by a specific push or pull speed then it lists all the recipes and the average development times too. Think of it as a crowd-sourced alternative to Massive Dev Chart.
I made a video for the FilmDev Patreon page.
FilmDev now has email
FilmDev can now email you when another FilmDev user leaves a comment on one of your recipes.
Just visit FilmDev, login and add your email address. You can of course unsubscribe at any time.
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FilmDev stickers in the flesh!
I’ve set up a Patreon page for FilmDev.
Patreon is a type of crowdfunding platform that is aimed at supporting ongoing projects.
I’ve set up a page with all the details so if you’re interested in supporting FilmDev then please check it out.
Tea, Coffee and Wine
I'm guessing most people who develop their own film have heard of caffenol, the process of developing film in coffee.
People have been adding caffenol recipes to FilmDev for quite a while but I recently found out about two other alternative film processes.
Wineol (using wine) and Teanol (using tea).
There's quite an interesting article on the Caffenol website about using wineol to develop some prints, including a video.
There's not so much information online for Teanol although the two recipes on FilmDev do contain full instructions.
Wineol recipes on FilmDev.
Teanol recipes on FilmDev.
Looking forward to seeing more alternative recipes added to FilmDev in the future.
See FilmDev’s top recipes, films and developers. Tri-X top film, Rodinal top developer. :-)
http://filmdev.org/popular
http://filmdev.org/films
http://filmdev.org/developers
FilmDev has a brand new design. It’s properly responsive so looks great on mobile too.
Let me know what you think of it.
http://filmdev.org
Have just set up Twitter Cards for FilmDev recipes.
Any new recipes shared on Twitter will now show the recipe details when expanded.
Awesome.
That goes the same for all the black and white work I do. I don’t look through a bunch of photos and go “Hey! This one would look so cool in black and white!” I shoot black and white, period.
Why Film is Important to Me - BelieveInFilm.com
I've made some FilmDev stickers and can post them worldwide (for a fee to cover postage and the price of the stickers). (via FilmDev | Stickers)
Developing at home is indeed very straightforward, cost effective and easy. You won’t need a darkroom or any expensive equipment, all you’ll need is a changing bag, a development tank and some film clips to hang your film to dry, all of which is available new or can be found used for very little money.
So You Want to Shoot Film?
PetaPixel article on developing film, including a link to FilmDev. :-)
FilmDev now has an API
A while back the creator of Develop! (a film development timer app for the iPhone) got in touch to tell me that one of his users had requested FilmDev integration into his app.
After some back and forth I'm happy to announce that you can now import FilmDev recipes directly into Develop!
This also means that FilmDev now has a (very simple) API - you can read more about that here.
This (hopefully) opens the door for more and more people to use FilmDev in cool and interesting ways.
FilmDev is now 5 years old!
FilmDev is now 5 years old. I launched it on 9th March 2008 and added my first recipe immediately after.
It took a while to get going but the site is now thriving with over 1,200 people sharing over 3,000 recipes.
Also, there are nearly 20,000 photos on Flickr with FilmDev recipe tags, and thanks to the lovely folks at Flickr all of those photos now include a link back to their individual FilmDev recipe also.
None of this of course would be possible without the contributions of everyone who has used the site so I'm eternally grateful to everyone who has taken the time to add their recipes and photos.
Here's looking forward to the next five years! :-)
A while back Sergey Morozov of Flickr reached out to me asking if I was interested in getting a “Developed with FilmDev” link added to any suitably tagged photo on Flickr.
Naturally I said yes!
It’s now been added to Flickr - so any photos with a ‘filmdev:recipe=’ tag will automatically have a link to FilmDev appear next to the photo.
This is of course totally awesome and I’m very grateful to Sergey and the rest of the Flickr team for getting in touch with me and then making it happen.
You can see an example on my photo above.
Why so many kinds of developers? Much like film of varying speed and grain characteristics, developers are no different. They vary primarily by the developing agent or type and how it operates on the silver crystals of your film. Some are of a solvent type, which tend to reduce grain by eating away at or rounding the corners of the grain. The downside is that some sharpness is lost. Other developers are of a non-solvent type which holds sharpness, but as a result tend to be grainier.
Choosing a B&W Film Developer | La Vida Leica!
A good exploration of the different properties of developers and why you might choose one.
Lets look at why this makes stand development so great. Well the main advantage, which the process was developed for, is pretty obvious; one of the big problems people run into is overdeveloped highlights that give you blown out white areas in your prints, and underdeveloped shadows resulting in black areas with no detail. You can either develop to control blown highlights and lose shadow detail, or develop for the shadows and get blown highlights. Stand development controls blown highlights because the developer around those areas of the film exhausts and prevents over development. It also lets the shadows fully develop, squeezing every last bit of texture out of them. This makes it amazing for pushing film way past its rated ISO.
Workflow Tutorial #2: Stand Development with Rodinal | J B Hildebrand Photography
Excellent article on stand developing.
Now my only excuse for not doing it is the lack of an eyedropper for measuring such tiny quantities of developer.
Stand developed recipes on FilmDev.