Can You Develop Film in a Jägerbomb?
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·August 29, 2025kosma
> Developing black-and-white film with coffee is a better option for younger analog photographers. As a bonus, it should smell better.
I've made Caffenol in the past. It stinks.
marksomnian
Looks like the source the article is based around is https://www.diyphotography.net/develop-film-at-home-with-a-j..., which itself is a write-up of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Oja2mpYqg.
Almondsetat
it's unfortunate that you can develop film even with something like coffee, but for the fixing step there aren't any similarly "not purely chemical" options
jama211
Everything is chemicals after all. We’re made of them!
Almondsetat
Do you think the quotations were just for show?
They are vitamin C to the mixture, which is actually what is developing the film. There's a commercial developer (Xtol) made by Kodak which is I believe vitamin C based, and it's a very good developer.
It would be interesting to know if the caffeine in the red bull is making a significant contribution I guess, otherwise the jagerbomb isn't really doing that much I think.