Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was a Rodinal fan. Gave me nice snappy negatives that were easy to print. I once saw an article that referred to it as producing "honest grain" whatever that meant, but I did not mind the tight grain structure it had. If I were pushing I would us something else, however. But Rodinal always left me satisfied. My last few years with film, I played around with adding ascorbate to it to minimize the grain and i did like that, too. Glad to see it is still available. Aram Aram Langhans (Semi) Retired Science Teacher & Unemployed photographer ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson On 6/14/2017 8:02 AM, Don Dory wrote: > For easy compensating developing that is not insanely sensitive to time and > temperature I would highly recommend Xtol dilute 1:3. Development time is > a little long compared to others but that is why if you miss your temp by a > degree and are distracted for thirty seconds you will still have great > negatives. Edge detail is good but not Pyro or even some of the lower > dilutions of Rodinal but much better than the high dilution Rodinal. > > All the best. > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks everyone. It is quite clear that nothing has changed since the last >> time I processed b&w film those many years ago. >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden LRPS >> www.gwpics.com >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 14 Jun 2017, at 15:00, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at >>> icloud.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jun 14, 2017, at 5:05 AM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I don?t want to start and wars here, and I know this is a minefield in >> which I will get a thousand and one answers, but is there any consensus of >> opinion these days on a one-shot b&w developer? >>>> Insanely I am thinking of doing my own processing of film again. >>> If you?ve never played with Pyro? you owe it to yourself to do so. >>> A true difference in "edge." >>> >>> fond regards, >>> >>> George >>> >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> http://www.imagist.com >>> http://www.linkedin.com/imagist >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >