streetshoot
Member
I've recently started developing my own film and pretty much just researched methods and taught myself etc but still can't help but feel like I could do a lot of improving.
I've been using a canonet GL III and olympus stylus epic. Stand developing with rodinal and fixing with formulary tf-4 rapid fixer. Ive been strictly shooting with Tri-X at iso 400 because I'm still learning the basics and don't want to push yet. I have attempted to just do regular development with rodinal for my first five rolls but they came out pretty bad and the film was still black or just blank so i got frustrated and started doing stand, reading its an easier way with rodinal. If anyone one has personal rodinal regular development times/methods I would love to hear that because I'm afraid to try again and ruin a roll of film
Any feedback would be awesome and much appreciated, I'm trying to absorb as much knowledge as I can! Ill post some of the images that I've taken and critique them on any issues please
I've been using a canonet GL III and olympus stylus epic. Stand developing with rodinal and fixing with formulary tf-4 rapid fixer. Ive been strictly shooting with Tri-X at iso 400 because I'm still learning the basics and don't want to push yet. I have attempted to just do regular development with rodinal for my first five rolls but they came out pretty bad and the film was still black or just blank so i got frustrated and started doing stand, reading its an easier way with rodinal. If anyone one has personal rodinal regular development times/methods I would love to hear that because I'm afraid to try again and ruin a roll of film
Any feedback would be awesome and much appreciated, I'm trying to absorb as much knowledge as I can! Ill post some of the images that I've taken and critique them on any issues please
streetshoot
Member
Heres a link to my flickr, my first time posting on flickr so I'm still getting the hang of this hyper linking and stuff lol https://www.flickr.com/photos/141715231@N07/?
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Looks like what you should get with rodinal and ISO 400 film. To me Rodinal is fancy and tricky developer for slow films. For 400 and higher I'm using HC-100 as predictable, fine results developer.
Bill Clark
Veteran
Yes, I agree with ko.fe.
Either use a slow speed film with Rodinal stand developing or try something like D-76 with your Tri-X.
I generally use D-76 as stock (no dilution) or dilute 1:1.
Hope this helps you.
Keep at it.
I've been doing this for a long time and I'm still learning. That's the fun part with photography!
Either use a slow speed film with Rodinal stand developing or try something like D-76 with your Tri-X.
I generally use D-76 as stock (no dilution) or dilute 1:1.
Hope this helps you.
Keep at it.
I've been doing this for a long time and I'm still learning. That's the fun part with photography!