Will work for Tri-X.

[Stephanie Brim]

More or less how I feel, Steph.

Can I borrow your sign for the weekend? I'm going to Ames, apparently, and I could stand downtown with it. 😛

Thanks for the advice, though, everyone. I'm going to try my TMX in Rodinal and I'll dunk my HP5 and TMY in the D76 that I have. Perhaps I could try a higher dilution...say 1:2 instead of 1:1. Hm. Could you do two films in a 600ml tank with 1:2 D76? 😛

 

[kbg32]

I use HP5 and Rodinal. I really like it. 1:50, 12 minutes at 70 degrees. Agitation once every 30 seconds. I've always found HP5 to my liking. It gives me a negative with a nice long tonal scale and it doesn't block up the highlights like Tri-X. This has been my experience. Everyone is different.

 

[FrankS]

Thanks for the advice, though, everyone. I'm going to try my TMX in Rodinal and I'll dunk my HP5 and TMY in the D76 that I have. Perhaps I could try a higher dilution...say 1:2 instead of 1:1. Hm. Could you do two films in a 600ml tank with 1:2 D76? 😛

Sure, no problem.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm still in the experimental stages with film...I don't really think I have enough experience with any one film to say it's better than another. I use many different kinds of film for many different things...and I like them all for certain things. To me, it's mostly a matter of personal taste and also depends on what developer I'll be using.

When I got my Diafine I started using Tri-X and used it for almost everything...HP5 came at a close second. D76, which is the developer I started with, and Rodinal, which is completely new to me, will most likely be my staples now. I look forward to dunking slower films in Rodinal and I know that D76 can handle almost any higher ISO film I can throw at it...so all will be right with the world. 😉

 

[titrisol]

Stephanie...
My examples of HP5+ in Rodinal

 

[Stephanie Brim]

What dilution did you use? Would increasing the dilution have any affect on graininess?

 

[jonasv]

Many people report the combination of HP5+ and Rodinal comes out extremely mushy - have never seen this own my own negatives, I don't know under what variables it happens. It's probably limited to a specific dilution/agitation/temperature/time combination, I guess, since I've seen it happen in other people's images.

Think of HP5+ and Rodinal as "if it's good, it's good, but if it's bad - it's really bad." The examples posted here all look nice. As I said, I don't know under what conditions it happens, but in case you'll be trying the combination, you might or might not encounter very large, mushy grain - not pretty.

 

[kbg32]

I don't know of any two photographers who may shoot with the same equipment, film, etc., have things come out the same way. My old roommate developed his film exactly the same as I did, and I always thought his negatives looked way too dense. But it worked for him. You find something that works for you, and you do with it as you may. In the beginning it is best to try and experiment. Find out what you like and don't - and go from there.

I have never experienced "mushiness" with Rodinal and HP5. I love it. Rodinal is a high accutance developer, hense it produces what some people think is excessive grain. I find it to be one of the sharpest developers out there. Of course the optics you use can affect this as well. HP5, my 28mm Elmarit, and Rodinal is a wonderful combination!

 

[titrisol]

I should write that down....
All the pics were taken in a sunny afternoon in Indianapolis, during the US GrandPrix (formula 1) weekend.
Nikon F301 with either a 200/4, 55/2.8, or a 70-210 zoom

Ilford Hp5+ in Rodinal 1+25 (me thinks). I will have to go and look in the files for development time.

What dilution did you use? Would increasing the dilution have any affect on graininess?

The grain is there, but results were ot mushy.
I loved the one that says 14 (the dashboard of a Jaguar), the leaping cat and the inlay work on a RollsRoyce

I printed them in Ilford MG Warmtone and the results were awesome, I could barely see the grain in 8x10 and there was a little grian in 11x14 but it was grain that added to the "cahracter" of the pics. Not intrusive grain 😉

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Yeah, I agree that the grain is unobtrusive. I like it.

 

[titrisol]

Rodinal makes smaller grain with higher dilutions.
1+50 is usually excellent for sharpenss and grain IMHO. However, with HP5 it takes a long time to develop.

However, after the appreciating rodinal article and patrick gainer's reccomendation 1+50+ ascorbate is a winner!

PS if you haven;t already done so, read the article here:
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Rodinal/rodinal.html