Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find Rodinal very sensitive to water hardness. It may require twice the development time if you use hard tapwater. On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Rusty & Cat <omegaman@shentel.net> wrote: >Tony Chang wrote: >> >> >Tony: >> >I have had good results from Agfa Rodinal, used at 100 to 1 dilution. >> >Try this dilution for 9 minutes at 68 deg. as a starting point. Do not >> >pre-wet. >> >Good luck, >> >Randolph Carlisle >> > >> >> Hello Randolph, >> >> Thanks for your hints. >> >> Can you describe what agaitiion did you process? Someone suggested me NO >> agaition when I develop TP films. So far, all comments I received >> suggested me to keep the agitation low. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Tony Chang >> stchang@novice.uwaterloo.ca >> 4A Co-op Chemical Engineering >> University of Waterloo >> Ontario, CANADA >Tony: >I have been agitating the usual 5 seconds agitation each 30 seconds of >development. I am printing with a cold light source, so you may find >your initial results too hard, but I would advise the 9 min at 68 deg. >rc >