Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree that Rodinal can give excellent results on some films. I love it on FP4 and PanF. Many many years ago (70's) I read in some magazine about the "honest grain" of Rodinal and that agitation builds grain. They suggested one agitation per minute and I have always used 1:50 or 1:100 and had excellent results. The accutance of this combination is outstanding. I have developed pieces of rolls (shoot a whole roll of one subject) with different developers and looked at the results. The Rodinal, while grainer, almost always looks sharper when enlarged to 11X14. I have toyed with adding some sulfite to diminish the grain, but have never done so. I think Agfa actually has a Rodinal Plus (or some such name) that has this added to diminish the grain. Has anyone tried this? Aram >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:03:38 -0800 >From: Pablo Kolodny <pablokolodny@mac.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Pink haze correction >Message-ID: <B83AD3AA.A65C%pablokolodny@mac.com> >References: > >Well Rodinal + Agfa APX 400 is one of worst combo I've ever seen. >By the way, is the APX 400 base so dirty, ugly and dark grey or... what ? > >On the other side I found that FP4, HP5 and APX 100 look nice in Rodinal but >1+50 and with very very smooth agitation. Only one inversion per minute. And >slight, quiet, silently... I liked those results. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html