kodak d23

Camera: Mamiya C220 Film: Fuji Acros Developer: Kodak D23 1+1 Development Time: 60 Minutes

I picked up 2 teleconverters today with an M42 mount for £1. I know these can be nortorious for introducing softness but I was curious to see how they worked coupled to my Pentax SpotMatic and 55mm lens. I loaded a few frames of FomaPan 200 35mm and exposed a few still life images and then...

I have recently returned to a project I started in 2020 which is learning more about sensitometry. My reference material is an excellent book by Phil Davis. I wanted to pickup where I left off which is all about film exposure and film density. My first experiment was to put into practice the...

Kodak D23 is such a simple and extremely cheap developer to make ( just 2 components) and I find it works very nice with Ilford HP5 35mm. I mixed this up on July 17th 2021and my exercise today was to see if it was still active. Camera: Pentax SpotMatic SP-1000 Film: Ilford HP5 Developer: Home...

It was the first time out with the Yashica mat so it was an exercise to see how I liked using it in the field and also to make sure there were no light leaks. The film of choice was Fuji Acros and the developer of choice was homemade Kodak D23. Now this was going to be an interesting...

Sometimes for lighting Sill Life, I use an LED Panel which has a dimmer control. The light gives out just enough "Umph" for small still life but would probably struggle with large subjects. In the past, I have struggled using the light panel with Kodak HC-110 developer because the way in which...

I was curious as to how X-Ray film would develop in Home Made Kodak D23 so I decided to load a single sheet of 5x4 and expose it. The packet gave very little clue as to what X-Ray film it was apart from a label saying ISO 80 Double sided. I exposed it at ISO 80 and then had to make a decision...