Rodinal lasts forever.....and ever?

mono · Jul 16, 2014

Just ROdinal, it´s that simple ;-)

StoneNYC · Jul 16, 2014

Yes, the print isn't great but can we see a snapshot of the negative?? Cell phone shot even?

That's awesome! Congrats!

I guess Tom was wrong

miha · Jul 16, 2014

Sure... since 1981 or is it 1891? :confused:

albada · Jul 18, 2014

I've kept a bottle of Agfa Rodinal in the refrigerator for nearly 20 years. No I'm not married; why do you ask? I tried it (Rodinal, not marriage) a couple of weeks ago, and it worked fine.

Mark Overton

StoneNYC · Jul 18, 2014

albada said:
I've kept a bottle of Agfa Rodinal in the refrigerator for nearly 20 years. No I'm not married; why do you ask? I tried it (Rodinal, not marriage) a couple of weeks ago, and it worked fine.

Mark Overton

Why did you have it in there so long?

Xmas · Jul 18, 2014

Black Dog said:
That's spot on- I picked up some Kodak Bromide paper that must have been from the 60s and although not perfect after I added the maximum amount of KBr suggested in the Darkroom Cookbook, it was pretty reasonable and looked good with a pinhole neg.

Add more KBr if you feel the need it is not like salt on potatoes.

Dr Croubie · Jul 18, 2014

Xmas said:
Add more KBr if you feel the need it is not like salt on potatoes.

By 'salt on potatoes' do you mean an inexact-science? Or as in 'you can never have too much salt on potatoes'?

Roger Cole · Jul 18, 2014

I think he means while you can easily ruin potatoes with too much salt, too much Kbr won't ruin developer (could really slow it down though, I'd think.)

Xmas · Jul 18, 2014

Salt on food is considered real bad by our medical people.

KBr will slow some developers but with prints developed by inspection it may clear highlights of fog.

With antique chlorobromide paper you could get warmer tones.

albada · Jul 19, 2014

StoneNYC said:
Why did you have it in there so long?

Two reasons: I switched to XTOL, and I switched to a lot of C-41.

Roger Cole · Jul 21, 2014

Xmas said:
Salt on food is considered real bad by our medical people.

KBr will slow some developers but with prints developed by inspection it may clear highlights of fog.

With antique chlorobromide paper you could get warmer tones.

SOME medical people. Others are realizing that may be wrong:

http://consumer.healthday.com/publi...ow-for-good-health-study-suggests-686408.html

In any case I don't care if my developer is good for my health (makes developer last longer) I care if it makes my prints taste better (as it were - better quality / more like I want.)

imyself · Jul 22, 2014

Here's a photo of some of the negatives.

I was in a hurry and couldn't get all the negatives in one frame.

Dr Croubie · Jul 22, 2014

They look like perfectly servicable negs to me (and a lot better than a lot of mine...)

imyself · Jul 22, 2014

Thanks, Dr Croubie. As the above negatives show, I really struggled with getting the right exposure using my sekonic lightmeter until I recently stumbled upon an excellent APUG post about metering B&W film with the incident meter rather than the spot meter (which is what I did with my color film). My first roll of film using the incident meter is much better exposed and I've been able to make some nice 'straight' prints.
Cheers
Adam

Rodinal lasts forever.....and ever?

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