Ellis Island 1976

In my experience, a developed negative may be scratched, grow fungus, or be damaged by water and chemicals. But the grain size will not change. That is, presumably, fixed in the gelatin emulsion. Remember, many films 40+ year ago were more grainy than what we have now.

And I didn't develop them, so I don't know how that was done. As I recall, they were developed and printed by a friend of my ex-wife; I don't know what developer he used, so maybe that's where the grain comes from. Nonetheless, it gives them a certain cachet...

Oh, could be Rodinal! I bet if you post a very tight grain crop the sleuths will be able to figure it out.

loccdor said:

Oh, could be Rodinal! I bet if you post a very tight grain crop the sleuths will be able to figure it out.

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You know, these photos remind me of some stuff I did many years ago when I first tried Rodinal. Similar grain patterns all right. Tried HC-110 after that and never went back. I took a look at the prints done (by the same person) from the second roll I shot that day on Ellis Island and they look pretty rough too. They looked better framed behind glass!