TMAX 400 & Rodinal

I put one or 2 in my gallery
look for the folder Rodinal and a picture that says too hot for roses

IMHO Rodinal 1+50 and TriX at 200-300 gives you very nice pictures.
I ran out of TXP a while ago, so I have not played with perverted rodinal in it.... but I believe that should be very very good.
 
I can shoot some for you today if you want me to. I need to finish off a roll of my out of date stuff.

I'll do it 1:100 for Massive Dev Chart times...we'll both see what comes out.

And yes, this is part of my play stock of film...I can waste a roll or two. It'll be a few hours, though. :p
 
WOW Dislexia man here!! it was TMAX, not TriX.... sorry!!!
no more coffe for me!

A quick searhc in APUG gave me this:
http://www.apug.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24779
blokeman said:
rodinal questions
Andrew, this may or may not be of use to you, for many years I used TMax 400 (TMY) developed in Rodinal at 1:100, excellent results for me at between 17-18 minutes with standard agitation 10 sec each minute. This is at 20 deg. Very good edge effects. Not too sure about the enlargement sizes you want with 35mm though, all my films were 120 & 5x4. I have unreliable stats for TMax100 so won't quote them. Good Luck.
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I told you it would be a few hours. :p

I'll shoot the roll while my boyfriend and I are waiting for our food. Gotta rewind the roll of Neopan I have in the camera, though.
 
I've only developed 120 TMax 400 developed in Rodinal 1+50, besides Diafine. It looks fine. I tried it once (only once) in 35mm...don't know what happened, but wasn't the same. It was a while ago.

I only use TMax 400 if souped in Diafine anymore. Would have some samples for you, but looks like Steph has all under control ;)
 
While I appreciate Stephanie's willingness to help, I don't see the point of basing one's opinion of a film/dev combo on someone who is "playing around" with it. Even with the MDC times, you won't get a reliable impression of the quality of the combination.

For instance, let's say I shot Delta 3200 @ 3200 and souped at the times at MDC in Microphen. I'd get thin negatives, and have a hard time even scanning. So I might say that the film is slower than 3200 and is unusable at that EI. But it's not. It's just that my dev times are uncalibrated.

If you want to find out if it's a good combination, you need to find someone who has the process calibrated. That means EI and dev time.

allan
 
My pleasure Nathan!
I firmly believe you should give it a try, if it is 35mm you can make a test roll by exposing a scene that has most shades of gray, measure for the mid tone. Shoot -2,-1,0,+1,+2, blank and repeat.

Then load a piece of the film in the spiral, test with your developer and decide what to do next.

IMHO a perverted Rodinal test is in order (that is Rodinal 1+50+ascrobate)
 
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