Rodinal lives!

[RaglanSurf]

http://www.ag-photographic.co.uk/tetenal-paranol-s-250ml-rodinal-formula-3677-p.asp

 

[Andysnap]

'Sharpness at the expense of more noticeable grain'.... oh dear, not my kind of thing at all.

 

[RaglanSurf]

Embrace the grain

 

[steveo_mcg]

It's the secret to all great photos.

 

[donut]

so if you want some for christmas order it now ( THATS CHRISTMAS 2015 )

 

[trevorbray]

'Sharpness at the expense of more noticeable grain'.... oh dear, not my kind of thing at all.

Me too..

 

[Andysnap]

I don't mind grain in certain shots, but for landscapes I want clean, sharp, grainless negs (a bit like digital I suppose...sorry)

 

[steveo_mcg]

I suppose it depends what you shoot, but 120 fp4 in rodinal is my standard landscape set up and I don't personally find them at all grainy. But I'd not be with out the extra bite rodinal gives.

 

[Peter B]

There's a whole new world awaiting on stand and semi-stand with Rodinal and it'll keep almost forever, even when it's about the colour of very strong tea. I'm still using Rodinal that has been open for 10 years or more and I'd use it without a second thought on an important film.

 

[Andysnap]

Ok, I'm starting to be a bit more convinced...

 

[AshleyC]

so whats the different to this and Rodinal R09

 

[Peter B]

I'm not entirely sure of the etiquette on linking other sites, but I don't think that APUG is a major threat to TP and there are enough Rodinal threads to last you a long, long while! (mods, please remove if I'm wrong)

http://www.apug.org/forums/google.p...ww.apug.org/forums/forum13/&ss=3175j1800019j8

 

[Peter B]

so whats the different to this and Rodinal R09

This may or may not help! http://www.apug.org/forums/forum37/65077-rodinal-ro9-one-shot-developer.html

 

[maninsuitcase]

so whats the different to this and Rodinal R09

There's several rodinal clones about, so I am also a bit lost as to the differences? I'm just starting out deving and I am yet to order anything but i've pretty much settled on a Rodinal variant so any insight will be lovley.

 

[Peter B]

I'm afraid I've only used the Agfa version Chris, so I'm not sure I can help other than to say that the one in the OP link looks as though it may be the same. I did have a problem with mine at one time as shown in the link below, so a bit of care required.

First attempt http://www.apug.org/gallery1/showimage.php?i=29937&catid=member&imageuser=5808

Second attempt http://www.apug.org/gallery1/showimage.php?i=37888&catid=member&imageuser=5808

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Like neofin blue rodinal was a high actuance compensating developer.
as a result when used with slow film like adox kb17 or kb 14 produced lovely tones with details extending from the deepest shadows to the extreme highlights. Like all high actuance developers they produced an unsharp mask like sharpness at the edges of bright/dark boundaries.

These developers did not increase grain they simply left it in the natural state. That is to say they were neithe solvent nor physical developers.
( physical developer added whispy tendrel like silver to the grains, making the structure less obvious)(while a solvent type smoothed the grain, but actually made the gaps between the grains larger)promicrol was a popular physical type developer, while microdol was of the more solvent type.

Of course the films I mentioned were practically grainless any way. I was able to enlarge Adox R 17 roll film to 3meters squareofor window displays.

such films and developers were highly popular in the mid to late 50s

 

[dmb]

I'll stick with my mixture of headache tablets, drain cleaner and wine bottle steriliser.

 

[Stumpy]

Surly the "Drain cleaner" should be last as a replacement Fixer????





Really though, I'm sure I've heard of using Aspirin as a Dev.

 

[dmb]

Surly the "Drain cleaner" should be last as a replacement Fixer????
Really though, I'm sure I've heard of using Aspirin as a Dev.

Don't call me Shirley and Google "Parodinol"

 

[Andysnap]

You'd probably be surly if your job was drain cleaning.