May 2011
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“Using such a low quantity of dilution means that the developer needs a lot...”
– Rodinal: The Magic Elixir
Great post on stand developing with Rodinal from Feeling Negative. Some good stuff in the comments too (including a plug for FilmDev from long-time user and Rodinal fan skink74). I’m gonna have to try stand developing some Rodinal real soon now.
Rodinal recipes on...
March 2011
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“Extremely smooth fine grain, totally flexible mystery soup. Shadow detail that...”
– 777 Fine Grain Developer
Every now and again a FilmDev user will add a new recipe with a film or developer that’s not in the FilmDev database.
At this point I usually log in and add the information - a simple process; Lomography have a new film out or I didn’t realise Tri-X came in 320...
August 2010
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April 2010
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Filmus Monochromus - Blogus: Diafine - Two Bath... →
Diafine is usable over a wide temperature range with one developing time for all films. Fast, medium and slow films can be developed simultaneously without adjustment in developing time.
I wasn’t aware Diafine had these properties.
I often wait until I have two films to develop as I own two tanks so can “batch them up” so to speak.
But as I often shoot different films at...
March 2010
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New release
FilmDev has a new release with the following changes. You can now filter search results by film and/or developer. This makes it much easier to compare film/developer combinations. Although displaying of photos for a recipe has always been limited to 30 per page (due to the Flickr API terms of service) it’s now possible to view further pages of photos. The pagination links appear on a...
February 2010
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New release with lots of changes.
FilmDev has a new release today with lots of changes. Significantly improved searching. Search results are ordered by relevance and higher ranking is given to film and developer names (as opposed to just the name being mentioned in the notes). Tagging photos works with Javascript disabled (but is slicker with it enabled). Imports still require Javascript but I will fix that soon. Some stuff around...
December 2009
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FilmDev has now hit 500 recipes!
FilmDev has now hit 500 recipes!
And by the time I got around to doing a screenshot for this post another 22 had been added.
This is all great news.
I was never really sure if the site would take off so seeing people join and add recipes on an almost daily basis please me greatly.
Since I did the new version of the site in November 2008 it’s been a pretty consistent upwards growth.
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November 2009
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FilmDev blog
I’ve created a blog on Tumblr for occasional posts about FilmDev.
It’s mainly for announcing features or developments related to the site.
For support issues or questions please ask on the Flickr group.