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Developing Delta 3200 with Atomal 49

baachitraka

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One of my friend asked me to develop this film but I have only Atomal 49 and Rodinal as developers.

Adox.de recommends 12-14 mins with stock Atomal 49 solution, but I have no experience with this combo. Any help.
 
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I like Rodinal too, but I have no idea about how it was shot. Nevertheless, I will go with ILFord's recommendations of 11mins @3200.

Also, wondering for kind of films I use Ultra-fine grain developers.
 

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Hmmm, I'm not so sure. D3200 has crisp grain but it is fairly enormous with Rodinal and 35mm will be rough as coarse sandpaper. I have done 120 in rodinal and thought it pretty nasty. 35mm I would not even contemplate in Rodinal unless I wanted that look specifically.

I have done lots of D3200 in Xtol 1+1 and think it looks very nice and suspect A49 will be similar in some regards. I was under the impression that Salgado used to have his TriX320 developed in this brew and I have no complaints of those prints.
 
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Well, I did one silly thing this evening. Mixed 300ml of Atomal 49 + 2ml of Rodinal. Developed for 12mins with 3 inversions on every second minute expect continuous agitation on the first minute. Negs look okay with obvious grain. I will try to scan and post some here soon.
 
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I have a print scanned. It was developed with Atomal 49 stock + 2ml of Rodinal for 16 mins with three inversions at every second minute.

I have no idea, whether Rodinal had any influence on the development.
 

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Looks pretty good. What EI did you use, was this MF or 35mm and how does the grain look on the print?

Thanks

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Delta 3200 + Rodinal = bliss

Makes for wonderful prints! I'm currently working on a series of 16x20" prints from 35mm Delta 3200 / Rodinal. I don't expect it to be done for a couple of years yet, but the prints look very nice. There's a really surprising amount of detail in them.

- Thomas
 

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pentaxuser said:
Looks pretty good. What EI did you use, was this MF or 35mm and how does the grain look on the print?

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Format is 35mm, I just developed it for my colleague. So, I have no idea about other settings.

I was scared about this combo, since I have no idea about what I am doing. Turn out negs came beautiful.
 
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