First roll of rodinal, I am impressed

[newtorf]

Love the tone of Agfa APX 100 souped in Rodinal!

 

[dmc]

Very nice. A great start! Thanks for this.

 

[f16sunshine]

Nice start indeed.
I love that car. What a beautiful object!

cheers!!

 

[jwicaksana]

Did you do stand or normal development? Nice results, very classic tones IMHO.

 

[newtorf]

It was 1:65 dilution (similar to HC-110 dilution H), 21 C, 17 min, 30 second initial agitation, then 2 inversions per 2 min. I used 7.5ml concentration for 2 rolls of 135 36exp.

I found a similar formula online (probably APUG). It is for 20 C. But I guessed that there would not be much difference for 21 C.

Did you do stand or normal development? Nice results, very classic tones IMHO.

 

[NeeZee]

tones are great indeed but i think you could achieve less grain (if you want that) by reducing the temperature to about 19 degrees and adjust times accordingly. rodinal works best on the colder side of 20° - for me at least...

 

[johannielscom]

Bit too grainy for my taste but a good start none the less!

Recently On RFF I read about a roll of film being fridge-developed in Rodinal since it was too hot a day. And it worked out fine, with very little grain.

My kitchen often is 16ºC in winter and I don't even make an effort to heat kitchen or water up to 20ºC, Rodinal likes being 'stood up' 1:100 for an hour at 16ºC...

 

[newtorf]

OK next time I will try to develop in refrig if the wife doesn't object. ;-)

 

[newtorf]

Out of curiosity, how did you type "º" in "ºC"? 😀

Bit too grainy for my taste but a good start none the less!

Recently On RFF I read about a roll of film being fridge-developed in Rodinal since it was too hot a day. And it worked out fine, with very little grain.

My kitchen often is 16ºC in winter and I don't even make an effort to heat kitchen or water up to 20ºC, Rodinal likes being 'stood up' 1:100 for an hour at 16ºC...

 

[Ronald M]

You have nice scans. Now add a medium contrast curve and they will lose the flat dead feeling. Adjust layer opacity. You lack mid tone contrast.

You might also use some levels for brighter highlights, blacks are fine.

 

[johannielscom]

Out of curiosity, how did you type "º" in "ºC"? 😀

1. On a Mac: Press 'option' and zero button.
2. If on a Windows machine, buy a Mac and revert to point 1!

😀

 

[Peter_Jones]

I'll second what has already been said about keeping the Rodinal dev solution at the lower side of 20 Deg C. Especially with 35mm.

Fantastic subjects 🙂

 

[Photo_Smith]

That's funny on my Mac i have option shift 8 which gives me °C your method gives me ºC strange eh!
What happens when you press shift cmd G ? for me it shows a little trick...

 

[newtorf]

Thanks for the tip! 😀

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1. On a Mac: Press 'option' and zero button.
2. If on a Windows machine, buy a Mac and revert to point 1!

😀

 

[helen.HH]

Lovely indeed ... Beautiful gradation in Tonal range 😉

 

[benlees]

Been awhile since I used Rodinal. Wouldn't mind getting some more. I really like it with TriX.

 

[gsgary]

I have only just tried APX100 but love it developed in rodinal
this is 1+50 for 13 mins

 

[mfogiel]

I think it's a good start, but you should be able to obtain:
1- smaller grain
2- better tonality
I typically expose APX 100 @ EI64, and develop 1+45 at 20C for 10 mins, with some initial agitation, and then at 1,4 and 7 minute mark.

Here a couple of examples:

35mm

20104022 by mfogiel, on Flickr


201211121 by mfogiel, on Flickr


6x6


20131804 by mfogiel, on Flickr


20131705 by mfogiel, on Flickr

 

[kiss-o-matic]

I just did my first successful roll today. The first attempt had 3 exposures on the roll and half the bottle of Rodinal on the kitchen floor. Not fun. Anywho, the roll was Rollei Retro 80s, and I'm beyond happy with the results. I agitated a bit much, but I was going for really high contrast. That's exactly what I got.


@ Tsutaya by gaijin_punch, on Flickr

 

[Rangefinderfreak]

Rollei 80 is a very contrasty film. Go with the dilution 1:200 and one hour stand development. Rollei RPX 100 is a good alternative for APX 100 also there 1:100 and stand development at 20 celsius