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I have used Rodinal and various outher developers over the years but have come back to roost and use D76 diluted 1 to 1, it does give slight improvement in edge sharpness, but essentially the grain is just as fine fine. Promicrol is what used to be described as a 'solvent' developer where the grain was reduced, hence the 'fine grain' tag, but this is at the expence of loosing some of the edge sharpness. This is fact, unless of course since the original receipe (by May and Baker) has been altered by the present manufacturers. (A similar effect can be found if a scanner used on a negative is set to 'reduce' grain, the whole image is ever so slightly softened). I have to admit, I have never used Pyro developer, so cannot vouch for its effectiveness, however for what we want and use I cannot see there being very much improvement or loss of quality over the tried and tested ID11/D76. The film I use is almost always used at a lower ISO than the makers recommend/suggest and the development time ajusted accordingly which gives me very easily printed images. EG using FP4+ I set it at 80 iso and reduce the development by 10% and Kodak T Max 400 I rate it at 250 and reduce the development by 12.5%. Last edited by John King; 6th January 2017 at 12:03 PM. |
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I recently reached out to a certain forum user for a supply of raw chemicals, in order to make my own D76, and use exclusively with FP4+ and HP5+ in 4x5 format.
They were very accomodating, and I have now been supplied with enough chemicals to ensure 50 litres of stock D76. At a total cost of around £20, and diluted to a 1+1 working solution, I now have 100 litres of fresh D76 1+1 at my disposal. Which works out at around 20p/litre; which I can actually use twice, thereby lowering the total cost to 10p/litre. How's that for 'convenience' ? JP |
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I wanted to try the 120 in a 9x7 Agfa folder I have where I have been disappointed with the results using other film, this combination is giving me results that I like. Richard |
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To quote Agfa themselves from their Film Processing data sheet "An allround developer concentrate, tried and tested for more than hundred years, on p-aminophenol basis for mixing one- shot developers. Rodinal features very good contour sharpness and a high speed yield. The concentrate can be diluted to match any special subject contrast." My experience with Rodinal and APX100 & APX25 and also Tmax100 is acutance is similar to Xtol (it's no higher) as is the fine grain. Both developers are a noticeable improvement compared to D76/ID-11. Some of the highest quality images I've seen shot on 35mm have been processed in Rodinal personally I found the combination of T grain (and similar) films and Rodinal gives an edge over Rodinal and conventional films, this was something the late Peter Goldfield advocated. Ian |
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