Developing film in coffee, along with other common grocery store ingredients...

I pulled this Argus C-four with Geiss lens mount off my shelf and it was so smooth I had to shoot with it.
I took it into Old Town Fenton, camera loaded with a fresh roll of Kodak 200 color film.
This was the first time I had been more than 2 miles from home in weeks, mostly staying safe at home.

It is hard to find an open film lab, so I developed with Caffenol. This was my second time trying the process. C-41 type color film comes out in monochrome. I added the sepia tint myself in software, because I like it.

This was my recipe this time:

spool film in dark and place in Paterson tank
mix 6 oz. water + 3.5 tsp Arm & Hammer washing soda @ 68 degrees F
mix 6 oz. water + 5 tsp instant coffee crystals @ 68 degrees F
mix 2000 mg vitamin c powder into washing soda solution
combine with coffee solution
pour it all into developing tank
develop 9 minutes with frequent agitations
pour out liquid, then about a half dozen plain water rinses
fix with solution of 4 oz uniodized table salt in 500 ml water,
3 hours with periodic agitation
pour out salt fixer, followed by several warm water rinses
remove film from tank, hang to dry

Film strip was very "dense" and I had to cut the saturation in the prescan in order to get any recognizable images with my Epson Perfection 4490, and tweak the images further in software afterwards.
But this might be because of the nature of color film composition, more than developing time.

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All images are ©2020 E.J.Kowalski.
Thanks! Ed