So I have rounded up all the ingredients for My first attempt at Caffenol C Film Developer.  What is Caffenol C You ask? Well in essence it is developing your precious rolls of film in Laundry Detergent and Coffee! Yup, Homemade, green-ish developer, for super cheap!

This is the recipe I will be starting with (from the folks at Digital Truth)

Caffenol-C film developer
Water  8 oz (237ml)
Arm & Hammer Washing Soda 2½ tsp (level)
Vitamin C powder ¼ tsp (level)
Instant Coffee Crystals 4 tsp (slightly rounded, NOT decaf)
The Fixer is regular Ilford Film Fixer

I will be documenting this experiment in detail and I will let you know how it all goes. This is however nothing but a teaser because I doubt that I will have a chance to get to this till sometime next week.  Because it is a crazy weekend of awesome this weekend! It is Tanya & Barry nuptials day, where I plan on drinking heavily and groping my wife inappropriately in public. Perhaps I will make a drunken spectacle of myself by making some sort of heart felt slurred speech in which I profess nothing in particular over and over till someone (most likely my wife) hooks me with the proverbial cane and tears me away from the podium!

It will be fun! :)

In addition to being international pinhole day, Sunday is also the Vancouver show & Swap at the Cameron Recreation Centre in Burnaby near North Road

I am thinking i may get up early and hop the skytrain out there for the early bird morning thing :)

For those not in the know this Sunday is the 10th anniversary of world pinhole day!

Yup that is right so get your crafting scissors out and start making your pinhole camera now cause i think everyone and there dog needs be out on Sunday taking ridiculously long exposures with camera that are held together with duct tape :)

Need some help or info on making a Pinhole camera?

well You can get instructions for your very own home made camera here!

dippold pinhole camera tutorial, originally uploaded by Dippold.

I am making a purchase from the imposable project. I can not wait. I was going to wait till they came out with some type 600 as well but I am super excited to try the PX100 and I simply can not wait to try the Fade To Black film as well as some of the other SX-70 film.

I am thinking i might get a few of the type 100′s as well..

Who wants to split shipping? Shipping can be quite expensive so if some one wants to gang up an order with me I am all for it. Email me or comment here.

EDIT: 4:27Pm
It looks like the shipping is going to be a flat $50us regardless if you are buying 1 pack or 20. So what I am going to suggest is we will see who all is interested and then split the shipping equally amongst everyone. Sound good? Good!

Yup just saying

These are part of an art installation down near the Olympic torch. Fun!

Ya you should all head on down to false creek near the Expo ball to see the inukshuks that people are building in mass on the beach. My Fuji Instax Polaroid camera says so.

So I picked up a new camera today. I finally found a new Fuji Instax 210 for non-lomography Prices!:)

I tried this camera out today while we walked about the North Vancouver pier today.  Pretty awesome on sunny days :)

Update: I was at Beau Photo yesterday and i happen to notice that they have all the film and these cameras for sale! Didn’t see prices but they have in stock!

I know that I keep saying this stuff and keep saying that I am going to get less busy and that whole not so busy thing never seems to happen. BUT I am hoping that next week will be different. This week has been a whirlwind of meeting people, officially unpacking, organizing stuff, & getting our studio ready for a two day workshop. Yuppers we have been host to nearly 100 different peeps in two separate all day sessions from a Southern California photog named becker. It has been great to meet peeps and have awesome lunch/dinners with you all.

I nearly killed myself trying to get the house in order for these two days so I think that i need some sort of a vacation. Conveniently tomorrow I am crammin on to a bus and headed out to Big White for the weekend. So many thanks to Allie for setting this trip up!! Hopefully super swell snow, (I am sure it will be better then here) there will be lots of beer, 50ish cool peeps that I don’t know but I am going to meet. ohhh & beer, did I mention beers, I like beers!

I am at a loss as to what I should take for gear because I am not taking my Xterra so taking my normal everything is not really an option. The 3-5 different types of film cameras & the 2 polaroid cameras in addition to a digital kit that I would normally take places may be a bit overkill :) My goal is to just walk downtown to where I meet the bus so if I cant carry it there with my board, boots, & clothes then it is probably to much stuff :)

Anywho… Here is “the intern” who is not an intern any more, but a full fledged employee, rockin out in blue polaroid form.

See ya on the flip side!

Today I was drug out to a rummage sale of sorts at the Croatian Cultural Centre. At said rummage sale I discovered this beauty which I managed to haggle the seller down a little bit for.

It is a feature rich SLR for being made in 1982. It has shutters from Bulb to 1/1000, 2 stops of exposure compensation, a wicked metering system, & if I was feeling particularly lazy Auto mode. It is remarkably both small & light for an older SLR camera. It looks as though it was hardly used and it even came with a nifty leather case. :) I will drop of the first roll shot though it in the AM to Custom Color.

As promised I have played a little bit with the 4×5 Omega! Here is the first and only color Polaroid to come out of it :)

Impromptu My Friend Lisa band photo!

Because I may have procured some aweosme in a box! well 7 boxes to be exact! :)

Oh Ya and the packing adventure has already begun :)

10 DAYS!!!! Till move and 16 DAYS til our House warming party :) So come help me move the Saturday after next! I pay in camera loans or beer.

hitting Cypress Tomorrow super excited kinda tired however!

Who doesn’t like chocolate!? Communists that’s Who! There are some chocolate polaroid film goodness from our trip to Tofino!!

Here we have pumpkins from Cathedral Grove.

The Fire alarm from our boat home.