Hi ... comments interspersed Frantisek Vlcek wrote:
> AFAIK the Foma "rodinal" is marketed as R09, which would place it > in same league with the ORWO R-09 formulation. Having said that, I > never tried it (even though Foma is making it in my country <g>) That's pretty much what I concluded after poking around a bit. > Could you please elaborate on the different formulations, Shel? > Thanks! I can't be specific ... I've just read that there are different versions of Rodinal, and that even Agfa has changed the formulation somewhat over the years. This is not unusual, as there are several versions of many "standard" developers. Somewhere I have a formula to make your own Rodinal ... more than I care to do these days. > > Second, Ilford Pan 400 is a film sold only on central & eastern Europe > markets. Some say it's HP5 (the before + version), some say it's a > lower quality HP5+ (only one coating than two coatings of HP5+), > some say it's a HP5+ sold at better price to capture the CE/EE > market. God knows! I figured it must be a local version, or at least marketed locally. This is not at all unusual, either. I saw some Australian Kodak that was Supra 100, but it was marketed under a different name and with different packaging, although it was Kodak. > > Now, Rodinal has by many people's opinion (mine too) best tonality > at 1:100 dilution. You might try to experiment from there. > Especially with classical films. Indeed! Rodinal at 1:100 produces some beautiful results, although I've only used it with "traditional" films. Agfa APX 100 and APX 25 is gorgeous with Rodinal 1:100. I've not tried much faster films, although Bergger 200 will be the next film in the soup. Then Fuji's Neopan F, as soon as I get it ... it should be here in a few days. Perhaps I should give HP5+ a bath in the stuff as well, and maybe TX, too. Have you used Rodinal 1:100 with these films? What have your results been like? -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/darkroom-rentals/index.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
