125 years Rodinal

[veraikon]

to remember by: Rodinal was patented 125 years ago in January 27, 1891 by Dr. Momme Andresen (Agfa, Berlin). It was the first product sold by Agfa and is the oldest* photographic product still available (2016). * and in my household the "oldest" used product (The brown lemonade with "C" was patented in 1892 😉 )

 

[f16sunshine]

That's pretty cool. Thanks for posting it up 🙂

 

[Timmyjoe]

Will have some film I have to develop tomorrow, guess I'll have to use Rodinal.

Cool.

 

[coelacanth]

Thank you for posting this indeed. I'll develop a roll at midnight today or tomorrow in Rodinal to celebrate its birthday. Long live Rodinal (and/or its formula). 🙂

 

[xayraa33]

Does anyone know what the approximate shelf life of an un-opened bottle of Rodinal is?

 

[Timmyjoe]

Forever!

No, seriously I don't know, but I've had open bottles around for years, till they turned as dark as black coffee, and it still processed the film just fine.

 

[nikon_sam]

I started way back when with Kodak Microdol-X, then moved on to D-76...these days it's HC-110 and Rodinal...
I have the last two developers in my photo closet and for now they will be the only two...
I like that they both have a long shelf life, I mix from concentrate and I use it once...and the price per roll is cheap enough...
Happy Birthday Rodinal...

 

[Mackinaw]

Does anyone know what the approximate shelf life of an un-opened bottle of Rodinal is?

I’ve heard that some of the new formulations don’t have the longevity of the older stuff.

I have a bottle I purchased back in the 1980’s that I’ve never opened. I’ll probably open it and use it sometime this year. I suspect it will be good.

Jim B.

 

[miha]

I believe Rodinal was made by Agfa up until the demise of the company in 2005. We still have many 4-aminophenol brews available though.

 

[drew.saunders]

I have some Adox "formula of Rodinal, but we didn't yet legally own the name, so we had to call it Adonal" developer that I bought a few years ago from Freestyle, and I shot 8 sheets of 4x5 on Sunday, but couldn't get around to developing it until tonight, the 26th in California, which is the 27th in Germany. I was planning on developing the negatives (Delta 100) tonight before I saw this post, but I'm glad I celebrated the anniversary. They're drying, but all look very good.

 

[coelacanth]

I ran a test roll of Sonnar 50/2 Contax RF mount with recently acquired adapter on M4-P early today, and found a mystery roll of Tri-X from who-knows-when in my photo junk drawer.

Developed in Adonal Rodinal (probably 2 years old now, half-full bottle) and they are getting washed right now. I'll post a best shot or two to commemorate the occasion. 🙂

 

[Moto-Uno]

There's 2 rolls of Tri-x400 hanging in the shower now that I developed with it's offspring
in Canada ( Blazinol ). It's all 120 and it's all great , how could anything that old be so good ? Peter

 

[coelacanth]

Still getting dried so I snapped the hanging negative with Fuji. 🙂

 

[ashfaque]

My go to developer (Compard's version "R09 One Shot") when I pull a dummy! I'm not denigrating the developer at all. It somewhat compensates my mistakes.

I mainly use it to develop Rollei Retro 80s at ISO 80 (60 secs initial agit. + 1hr full stand). The negs. are slightly more contrasty that I'd like, but lovely outcome. 🙂

HC-110, in my opinion, is very similar, but it is better (grain size and look in 35mm) with ISO 200 or faster films. But in 120 and beyond, the difference hardly matters.

I hope they'll both be produced for another 100+ years.

Bests,

Ashfaque

 

[coelacanth]

Thank you Dr. Andresen for creating this little gem of a photo chemical. Cheers!


Happy Birthday, Rodinal! by Suguru Nishioka, on Flickr

 

[k__43]

Yay Rodinal! My fav developer

Untitled by Kay K, on Flickr

 

[Kent]

Happy Birthday!! 🙂

 

[Rayt]

I love Rodinal with Acros and Fomapan 100. I am glad it is also good with Tri-X. I was under the impression it is too grainy with fast film. I will soup a roll with HP5+ and see how it goes.

 

[k__43]

I love Rodinal with Acros and Fomapan 100. I am glad it is also good with Tri-X. I was under the impression it is too grainy with fast film. I will soup a roll with HP5+ and see how it goes.

HP5+ is looking gritty in Rodinal. Well it kinda always does.
Tri-X and Neopan400 on the other side are nice.

HP5+ pushed to 1600 and souped semi-stand for 2h
Untitled by Kay K, on Flickr

 

[Volver]

God bless Rodinal!
My favorite developer with slow film and with Neopan 400 (i have some left in my freezer). But sometimes i use it with 400ISO films like HP5+ and Tri-X.

Here is an example with HP5+


And here is with Neopan 400 (almost no grain on 20x30 print)
Neopan 400 by Volver Mos, on Flickr