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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Darkroom / May 2004Rodinal help for new user
I want to use Rodinal for my first experience in a darkroom my question: How must use Rodinal 1.25 for 300 ml water ?? 300 ml water + 12 ml Rodinal OR 288 ml water + 12 ml Rodinal ?????? Tank Giuseppe - Italia > I want to use Rodinal for my first experience in a darkroom > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Giuseppe - Italia Add the two numbers together. 1+25 equals 26. Divide 300/26 and that equals the amount of Rodinal. 11.5ml. So use 12ml and 288ml of water. Nick On 5/20/2004 5:36 AM Nick Zentena spake thus: >> I want to use Rodinal for my first experience in a darkroom >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Add the two numbers together. 1+25 equals 26. Divide 300/26 and that > equals the amount of Rodinal. 11.5ml. So use 12ml and 288ml of water. Not that it even makes that much difference; I wouldn't lose any sleep over this measurement. Black & white processing at this level is pretty damn forgiving.  SignatureI was quickly apprised that an "RSS feed" was not, as I had naively imagined, some new and unspeakable form of sexual debauchery practised by young persons of dubious morality, but a way of providing news articles to the cybernetic publishing moguls of the World Wide Wait so they can fill the airwaves with even more useless drivel. - Cynical shop talk from comp.publish.prepress > Not that it even makes that much difference; I wouldn't lose any sleep over > this measurement. Black & white processing at this level is pretty damn forgiving. True it won't matter here. Even if it did just doing it the same away every time would be good enough. But knowing the "right" way to handle dilutions might matter with some other items. Nick > I want to use Rodinal for my first experience in a darkroom WHY? It's not all that good a developer. > my question: > How must use Rodinal 1.25 for 300 ml water ?? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Giuseppe - Italia >>I want to use Rodinal for my first experience in a darkroom > > WHY? It's not all that good a developer. Why? It's inexpensive, internationally avaialable, the concentrate will literally keep for years, it produces results some people find visually appealing, it works with a wide variety of films and can be used at a broad range of dilutions for different effects. In medium format, you're unlikely to notice the grain, though it can be distracting with fast film in 35 mm. Sounds like a fine beginner's developer to me. Heck, I used Dektol for the first roll of film I developed at home (in about 1970). With contact prints from 620, who could tell? SignatureI may be a scwewy wabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatwaz! -- E. J. Fudd, 1954 Donald Qualls, aka The Silent Observer Lathe Building Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/HomebuiltLathe.htm Speedway 7x12 Lathe Pages http://silent1.home.netcom.com/my7x12.htm Opinions expressed are my own -- take them for what they're worth and don't expect them to be perfect. > It can be distracting with fast film in 35 mm. Yeah. I use it mainly for sub 200 ISO. and HC-110 and T-Max-developer for 400+ development. A 50 ISO film (e.g. Ilford Pan-F+) in Rodinal 1+50 is a joy! And other slower films are also very nice in Rodinal 1+50. My absolute favourite. > Sounds like a fine beginner's developer to me. The best and the cheapest. My first developer. Easy to mix and very versatile. > >>I want to use Rodinal for my first experience in a darkroom > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > literally keep for years, it produces results some people find visually > appealing, Not me. It's way too grainy! > it works with a wide variety of films and can be used at a > broad range of dilutions for different effects. In medium format, > you're unlikely to notice the grain, though it can be distracting with > fast film in 35 mm. PRECISELY! > Sounds like a fine beginner's developer to me. > > Heck, I used Dektol for the first roll of film I developed at home (in > about 1970). With contact prints from 620, who could tell? Giuseppe: in 300 ml water add 12ml Rodinal. Al Doyle > I want to use Rodinal for my first experience in a darkroom > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Giuseppe - Italia |
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