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Glycin is somewhat better suited to stand development than other developing agents, which might explain the use of the formula above. Atget also used a glycin developer for his famed stand development escapades (which I believe is the primary source of the "stand development" tradition).
Glycin is said to be somewhat better suited to stand development (more resistant to uneven development, mottle, streaking problems inherent in the process) than other developing agents, which might explain the use of the formula above. Atget also used a glycin developer for his famed stand development escapades (which I believe is the primary source of the "stand development" tradition).
I haven't used glycin because I've not been able to get it here.
I stand develop FP4+ for 1 hour in a mix of RO9 and dilute Xtol. I do so because it gives me negs that print well in alternative processes.
Good source of information is a book Iridescent Light by Michael Axel (published by Blurb).
While talking to a friend of mine, I was explaining how I tried stand developing in a fridge because of a (seemingly) tall tale from some assistant professing that it is what her employer did. I tried a 1:100 Rodinal mix and put a can and appropriate amount of wash water in the fridge for several days. I got developed negs, all be thin ones.
Any tales to add?
No tales. Just a question, did the assistant say what benefits the employer claimed for stand dev at about 4 degrees F? I had heard that Rodinal operates at very low temperatures but fridge temp must be pushing the boundaries a little
It would be interesting to see negatives that "the employer" produced at fridge temps and how long a "stand" it needed
pentaxuser
Sorry, my mistake. We Brits have adopted the sensible Centrigrade scale for many years now but I was trying and failed to think in Fahrenheit. I meant 4 degrees C. Makes me wonder however what Rodinal tastes like as a seriously frozen ice-popsicle. Have I managed the right word here? We call it an ice lolly in the U.K.Four degrees Fahrenheit... you sure about that?
No tales. Just a question, did the assistant say what benefits the employer claimed for stand dev at about 4 degrees F? I had heard that Rodinal operates at very low temperatures but fridge temp must be pushing the boundaries a little
It would be interesting to see negatives that "the employer" produced at fridge temps and how long a "stand" it needed
pentaxuser
originally read about the tale on some other site about 10 years ago (I think).
... Yes, there's a substantial difference between 4 degrees F and 4 degrees C. ...
Well I have learned something here: namely that Rodinal does not stop working at 4 degrees C which was I had assumed had happened to the OP's attempts at 4C such that at that temperature a usable neg would never have developed no matter how long the "stand" was.
If Alan Johnson's belief is correct then overnight in the fridge at say 6 hours should easily be long enough for acceptable negs. Just a pity that we have no advanced knowledge of what the very cold long-stand negs look like
Gerald, were the Artic users actually processing outside? If they were, I wonder how they got round the problem of fixing and washing? I know that Ponting and Hurley on the Scott and Shackleton Antartic expeditions processed bu I think were doing it inside the ship/huts that were there so had reasonable ambient temperatures to work in
Any more info on this processing in the Artic?
Thanks
pentaxuser
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