I took portraits using x-ray film (Agfa Scopix IC1B cineradiography 35mm) and developed it IN-THE-FILM-CASSETTE, no darkroom, in a homebrew monobath I made for the purpose. The film leader was taped to the outside of the cassette, and swizzled in the cassette with a pen for about 12 minutes. I then pulled out the negative and presto, these portraits were on the film. Not perfect but...
I custom formulated the developer through trial and error. Home-made PCTea 6ml, concentrated RapidFix (ammonium thiosulfate) 1.6ml [I actually used agricultural 12-0-0 fertilizer which is ammonium thiosulfate], Household ammonia (NH3) 4ml with water to make 100ml of developer. Patrick Gainers PCTea (look up on line) is a mix of Phenidone, Vitamin C & triethanolamine. P.S. the cool green liquid is Palmolive dishwashing liquid, not the actual developer ;)
Note, kinda easy to figure the correct time..just give it a couple of minutes longer than the exterior film is cleared and totally black.
That's cool, good photos too. I just saw that FS post of being able to develop film using coffee. Smelling coffee instead of chemicals, I'm intrigued. Ha!
Once you load it up with Washing Soda (Sodium Carbonate) it doesn't smell too appealing, and taste...well, don't ask me how I know.
That's pretty cool Robert and the photos look like they came out great.
The picture in the lower left hand corner illustrates the limitations of this technique. You have uneven processing due to the inability to agitate the film properly -- and the film sticking together in the can..
I suggest you acquire a stainless steel tank and reel if you want to get serious about B&W film. Avoid plastic tanks that cannot be inverted, you will run into the same problems.
I have developed about 12,000 rolls of film over the past 50 years.