Stand developing, again.

[RaglanSurf]

I've just finished a roll of the excellent Fuji Acros 100 and I'm thinking of processing it 1+100 in Rodinal for 60mins. Now I've stand developed other films but usually cheap stuff like Lucky 100 and I've been very happy with the results.

I think most of us would agree that Acros is a wonderful film so my question is am I loosing any of the quality of Acros by stand developing it? Or would I be better processing it for the recommended MDC times of 1+50 for 13.5 minutes or 1+100 for 18 minutes?

 

[Andysnap]

Blimey, a sudden intersst in stand developing has developed on this forum....

 

[steveo_mcg]

I'd be inclined to do it at 1+50 unless you've got a reason not to. I'm not actually sure why but gut feeling says use normal agitation.

 

[robhooley167]

You won't lose anything from stand devving, if anything you'll be able to extract a higher dynamic range from it.

 

[RumpFace]

Why do you want to cook it so long?

 

[RaglanSurf]

Why do you want to cook it so long?

It's cheaper i.e. it uses less chemicals and it means you can also just walk away from the tank and let it do its thing while you can then get on with more important things in life like watching the Tour de France or Alias Smith and Jones

 

[Knikki]

I have done a fair bit of Stand Dev with Rodinal and Delta 400, 100 and something else I can't remeber.

I agitate for the first 30secs like normal then once more at the 30 minute stage, cause I usually dev for 60min, oh and always 1:50.

Sometimes I have agitated right at the very end but i doubt it does alot because I think the dev will be exhausted by then.

 

[Strapps]

I've been using 1:100 APH-09 (Rodinal) and not agitating, though I might start as a couple of my films have what appear to be streaks running across the negatives from the sprocket holes, looks like something's stained them when it was settling in the tank.

 

[RumpFace]

You'll get dev streaks, that's a given. How many agitations are there in that hour? Assuming you're using a spiral, not everyone has a deep tank at home.

edit, you need to agitate consistently. That's not always possible.

 

[robhooley167]

No dev streaks with Rodinal in any of the devs I've done with stand dev. No bromide drag either as there is no bromide knocking about!

 

[robhooley167]

Edit , the streaks could be surge marks from over agitating actually.

 

[Asha]

No dev streaks with Rodinal in any of the devs I've done with stand dev. !

Same here!

Tbh the results that i've had from (semi) stand development using 1:100 solution of Rodinal , agitation for approx 30 seconds at the start then 2 or 3 inversions half way through the development time have differed very little ( if any) from "standard developing" of any given b&w negative film that i've processed.

It's certainly a more convenient way to develop, not least of all for the reasons that Nick mentions in his opening post.

Additionally the timing doesn't have to be precise, nor the temperature and indeed several different brands and speeds of film can be all developed in the same soup without problems.

Similarly C-41 or E6 films ( in fact just about any film) can be developed in this manner ( with rodinal anyway) albeit the results of cross processed colour film do lack contrast. Nothing that cannot be easily rectified in PP.

 

[Strapps]

You'll get dev streaks, that's a given. How many agitations are there in that hour? Assuming you're using a spiral, not everyone has a deep tank at home.

edit, you need to agitate consistently. That's not always possible.

Edit , the streaks could be surge marks from over agitating actually.

I've been using 1:100 APH-09 (Rodinal) and not agitating, though I might start as a couple of my films have what appear to be streaks running across the negatives from the sprocket holes, looks like something's stained them when it was settling in the tank.

It was consistent, in that I consistently didn't agitate it.