Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I agree with (almost) everything you say, that's why I have had a bottle of Rodinal standing here for over two years after I had used it only once. The results I got using Rodinal 1+25 with Agfa 100 film in 1997 were not encouraging, to put it mildly, so Rodinal and Agfa films did not get used any more although I understand it is a combo much liked by medium format users. However, using a 1+100 dilution with Agfa 25 film is quite another story. And that little bottle has a few advantages: it hardly takes up any space, keeps forever (it seems) even in partly filled plastic bottles, and it is dirt cheap. I just got technical data sheets from Agfa and also their new 88 page --simply beautiful-- booklet on their b+w products, but there is no mention of development times for 1+100 anywhere there. Try 15 mins at 68° as a starting point if your are adventurous >Dan Cardish wrote: >> >> That's strange. A book I recently picked up (The Film Developing Cookbook >> by Anchell and Troop) mentions that the grain of Agfa 400 developed in >> Rodinal 1:50 is finer than Tri-X. To quote them: "It [Rodinal] is most >> successful with Agfa 400, a film that exhibits noticeably finer grain, than >> Tri-X." I suppose they mean when developed in similar developers. >> >> Elsewhere they comment that Agfa 400 exhibits the best gradation of all 400 >> speed films. >> >> TheY >> >> Dan C. >I do remember reading that and they said a number of other things when >went against my and general direct experience but I still think they're >swell. >I believe there is a consensus among photographers that Agfa films >gradate real well but you pay for it with mucho extra grain. Rodinal >anyone knows is grain city. Combine the two and what have you got: grain >on your grain, with some more grain added for good measure. Just run out >and buy a roll, shoot it and run it and if you don't agree I'll >personally say "sun of a gun!". I get more grain with Agfapan 100 and >Rodinal than I do with Tri X. But strait line gradation like you never >saw; creamy mid tones and highlights. >Mark Rabiner - -- christer almqvist eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58