TMax & Rodinol

[marvelous1200]

Anyone have experience with these two together? I usually shoot trix as my film of choice, but just recently ran out. So we had some tmax 400 lying around work that I scooped up to use. I looked around the web for a while for development recommendations...didn't find too much that, mostly just found times with no descriptions or characteristics. So if people have experience with it I would appreciate their input.

I was shooting haloween party people at ISO 400 with direct flash at night.

I have been happy with my results using TriX asa 400, developed in Rodinol for 14 min, diluted 1/50 at 68 degrees.

but i imagine that TMax will be different and possibly more finicky.

thanks in advance.

 

[Tom A]

I just did a handful od Tmax 400 with Rodinal last week. I was testing the New Tmax versus the old one and various developer. Initially I did it in Rodinal 1:100/19 min (my standard film test starter). Later I did it in Rodinal 1:50/13 min with reduced agitation (2-3 turns/60 sec). If you were shooting most of the stuff with flash I would go for a more moderate dilution than 1:50 (it would give you a punchy neg with somewhat fried highlights). Go to 1:75 for 14-15 min and minimal agitation, maybe 2 turns/60 sec.
Unlike Tri X, Tmax is developer sensitive and over agitation will fry high lights so it is better to err on the conseravative side.

 

[Trius]

What Tom said!

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I always liked Tmax 100 in Rodinal but preferred Tmax 400 in the Tmax developer diluted 1+7 like in this shot of my grandpa

Here's another portrait on Tmax 400 in Tmax 1+7:

The first one is 35mm shot with an Olympus OM-4T and 100mm f2.8 Zuiko, the second was shot with a Mamya 645 and 80mm f1.9N Mamiya lens