build my parodinal and my own fixer for developing BW film

Parodinal a homade film developer, why i made it?, Because i start to get dizzy with my behavior, like to cut film and only develop 4 or 5 frame. actually its ok, but it became expensive in chemical for developing film. i just use local developer, just 70cent and you can use it for 1 liter solution. the problem is, whether you develop 4 [...]

Developing Film BW starter kit. Hue he he

Yaa memang untuk memulai mencuci film BW sendiri kelihatannya susah, berurusan dengan kimia, dan berkesan mahal. Sebenarnya tidak juga. Jika dibandingkan dengan harga kamera rangefinder atau SLR analog biar bekas sekalipun, jauh lebih murah. Dan anda akan mendapat keasikan dalam mencuci film, tidak hanya memotret saja. Salah satu keunggulan [...]

recycle your silica gel

Silica gel are material that popular for photographer to keep the box not to humid, to prevent some mushroom live on the lens. It turn form dark blue to pink when it absorb water. When it turn to pink, its time to change the silica gel. Many people said the pink silica gel can be recycled into blue again with heat. At Fist time, I wondering [...]

DIY machine for agitating method replacement

since i start to develop my film by my own, my craziness is influence in my developing tank too. Manual Developing film will be doing a standard action, agitation. Whether you do a rotating the film or turn up side down, you still have to agitate. You will have to concentrate on your agitate to get a good result. And the result are depend [...]

Build DIY light meter for photography, cheap, simple, and handy

I have been making this for along time ago, since I don’t like my K1000 light meter, maybe it already weak, and my metering feeling was much better than the meter it self , but every time I tried to make it, I always fail, until the last experiment.my idea for the scheme was so simple. Give a power, an Light Depend Resistor series with potensiometer [...]

reducing process using cheap material

so i ask mu friend for my first experiment in "bleaching" LOL and he give me a recipes form his book. he never try before. the recipes issolution A :- Kalium permanganat 52.5 gram- water 1.000 mlmix itsolution B:-Sulfuric Acid (concentrated) 32 gram- water 1.000 mlmix it.than mix both of solutions with 1:1 or depend on your need. more solution [...]

BLEACH THE FILM, using bleach for fabric, hi hi hi

my holiday experiment,i had a holiday, and i stuck in my house because of rain, can't do anything in photography. so i turn on the internet to waste my time, when i read some article in BW photo, i read about bleaching. i made an misunderstanding about the term of bleaching. it should be reducing method. reducing mean we reduce the thickness [...]