100 year old Rodinal

[pentaxuser]

Thanks, Helios

pentaxuser

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

I've been using HC-110 for decades and never used Rodinal until a friend gave me a bottle last year. I'm pleasantly surprised. I still prefer replenished HC-110 . Old habits die hard.

 

[Helios 1984]

I found this one a french forum, an ad from a photographic paper "Le Photographe" dating from 1927.

 

[AgX]

It gives the price of the working solution. Something I do not remember having read in an ad before.

 

[afriman]

That price is quite interesting. According to the information provided here, the price of Rodinal in 1927 was roughly the same as that of Adox Rodinal today - assuming the price in the ad refers to one litre of 1+50 working solution. As mentioned in that thread, one would of course have to factor in the cost of goods and typical wages in 1927, in order to come to a meaningful comparison.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

no wonder these companies are going out of business; built-in obsolescence has its purpose.

 

[Helios 1984]

The link in post #22 is broken so I'm reposting it.