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* Green tea-based Caffenol | * Green tea-based Caffenol | ||
** Worked great, doesn't smell nearly as bad as the coffee-based solution. | ** Worked great, doesn't smell nearly as bad as the coffee-based solution. | ||
** Part A | |||
*** 450ml water | |||
*** 10 bags of green tea | |||
** Part B | |||
*** 600ml water | |||
*** 4 teaspoons of sodium carbonate | |||
** Mix parts A and B together | |||
*** If you mix all the ingredients at once rather than as two parts, it's very hard to make the sodium carbonate dissolve | |||
** Add 3 teaspoons of vitamin C | |||
** Development time on paper has been ~120s | |||
Tea offers better contrast than Ilford devs and the tea variant does not | |||
have a 1/4 of the pungent smell that the coffee did. If you make it | |||
though, mix 10 bags into 1L of 22C water, let steep with moderate | |||
agitation for at least 15 minutes, then mix in 3x the specified amount | |||
of sodium carbonate and vitamin c. | |||
120 second dev time for paper. Have not tried Caffinol-C with film yet, | |||
that's to come. | |||