neopan 1600 stand development in rodinal.

Quinten

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Hi,

The massive dev chart didn't tell about stand development for this combo. I plan to use a 1+100 dillution of rodinal and aggitate once a minute for the first three minutes and than just let it stand for about 40 minutes with a small agitation each 10 minutes. This is a plain gues since I've never tried 1+100 before so maybe some of you have some more experience or just tips on this?

The pictures where shot at night exposed for the highlights wich might even be slightly underexposed at times, so I am just trying to get a bit more from the shadows this time.

cheers!
 

Les McLean

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Quinten, I would say if you exposed for the highlights in a night shot no method of development or combination of developer and dilution will put any information into the shadow areas. The rule is "expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights".
 
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Quinten

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Hi Les, I might be wrong here but can it be I have read a book from you? (I am not home to check.)

The pictures where an experiment f/1.4 and shutter speeds from 1/30 to 1/60 so I could shoot 'life' (people) at night. I've had some very nice pictures with tri-x 400 and rodinal. Some have way to much black others hold some detail in the complete picture. My only goal is to get from the picture as much as possible, I supose something like stand development gives me the best shot right? I obviously know the exposures are far from ideal But some results are unexpected.

cheers!
Quinten
 
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