ADOX/Efke Beutler High Acutane Film Developer

Here's a link to the formula for Beutler Developer. I need to get some sodium carbonate.

This is said to be the best developer for ADOX single emulsion films.

Some similar recipes here.

I need to do some research on the film and the chemistry of this - but it seems that ADOX is more like the sort of film used in the 50s, and more able to give the kind of look I'm trying to get. I've got a couple of rolls to try out, (a 25iso, and a 50).

I seem to have stumbled into my own genre. This is the Flickr set. Both the content and the title are provisional, but the idea is engendered.

ADOX/Efke Dev Times

Developing times in standard developers:
ISO 100 35mm, roll, or sheet film:

If exposed at film's regular speed of ISO 100, the following developing times apply:

Kodak D76/ID-11: 8 Min


If ISO 100 film is exposed at ISO 200 for increased speed and optimum differentiation of highlights, the following developing times apply:

Kodak D76/ID-11: 11-12 Min.

ISO 50 35mm, roll, or sheet film:

If exposed to films regular speed of ISO 50, the following developing times apply:

Kodak D76/ID-11: 7 Min


If ISO 50 film is exposed at ISO 100 for increased speed and optimum differentiation of highlights, the following developing times apply:

Kodak D76/ID-11: 9-10 Min.


ISO 25 35mm, roll, or sheet film:

If exposed to film's regular speed of ISO 25, the following developing times apply:

Kodak D76/ID-11: 6 Min



If ISO 25 film is exposed to ISO 50 for increased speed and optimum differentiation of highlights, the following developing times apply:

Kodak D76/ID-11: 8-9 Min.

Copied from Freestyle Photographic Supplies, here.

Múm

Thanks to mammara for blipping this earlier today:

Múm "Rhubarbidoo" Fatcat Records

Lovely.

Saltcoats Sea Front 4

Saltcoats Sea Front 4, originally uploaded by Pig Sty Avenue.

Click on this for a lovely comments thread. There's them that know, and them that don't know, and them that don't even know that they don't know. Or something.

ADOX/Efke

I've ordered a couple of rolls of ADOX 120 - one each of 25 and 50 iso - from retrophotographic.

More Ilford Sporti Fun

The Sporti 4 I took to London developed a light leak through the red window, and the whole roll of 35mm turned bad. Bugger. I'll shelve it until I can get some 127. The flash is working (though we need to wait to see if it's synching) on the Sporti 6, and I'll finish that roll today if I get time.

Romeo & Juliet

This was the real highlight of a weekend in London, far outshining Godot. I've been meaning to get to the Globe since it re-opened, but this was the first time. Splendid, splendid, splendid. It reminded me a little of the community theatre companies who came to our secondary modern school - that sense of being involved in the drama which was being specifically staged for you.

The Capulets were all brilliant, giving that sense of a domestic crisis rapidly escalating to tragedy. Mercutio was an upper class rugger bugger, funny for a while but you probably wouldn't want to meet him. And there's so much going on: a tragedy indeed where the cause is people not minding their own business, on the one hand, and being young and foolish on the other.

The line that stuck with me, though, made me wonder if it was placed as light relief to an Elizabethan audience at the death scene: "O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop/To help me after?"

The Archbishop of Canterbury was in a private box.

Waiting For Godot

Last weekend was in London, and I managed to get a ticket for Godot at the Haymarket, Theatre Royal. Brilliant cast, of course. Someone said the next day when I was telling them, "Oh, isn't that the 'happy' Godot?" Well, yes. Inasmuchas it could be. It troubles me, though, the grip that Becket keeps on the play from beyond the grave. That in itself is a marvellous piece of theatre.

The Gallery was infested with posh Sixth Formers. Most were enjoying the play but one of them spent the second act typing on her Blackberry when she wasn't whispering to her neighbour. And an American gentlemen next to me left after the first Act, bored or believing it was over, I don't know which.

Gangster Films

I don't agree with this list. But it's interesting.