Similarity between FX-39 and Ilfosol 3?

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otto.f said:
I can imagine. This is nice work which emphasizes Californian light and certainly not doable with Rodinal:

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Can you say what it is about Rodinal that makes Henry Wessel's negative impossible to reproduce in Rodinal Is there something inherent in Rodinal that makes it unsuitable for bright light similar to that of Californian light?

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pentaxuser said:
Can you say what it is about Rodinal that makes Henry Wessel's negative impossible to reproduce in Rodinal Is there something inherent in Rodinal that makes it unsuitable for bright light similar to that of Californian light?

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These are all very clean, a bit high key, photo's with hardly any visible grain. I just have never seen Rodinal developed photo's on 35mm format with that characteristics and I would be surprised if I saw them. What I see is that he shoots on Kodak TriX and this film developed in Rodinal has very prominent grain.
 
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Thanks Otto. Based on your quote I had thought that you were saying that Rodinal was unsuitable for bright light similar to Californian light and wanted to know why. Yes, Rodinal may not produce as grain free negatives as other developers but it was specifically whether it was a developer that was specifically unsuited to bright light that made me interested in what you said

As I said if it is solely a question of its grainy appearance that you do not believe could give the same look as Wessel's negatives then you may be right

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I created a new thread with samples, since it's more a film comparison and no Ilfosol-3 involved:

Comparison of Kodak T-Max 100 vs Delta 100, in Adox FX-39II, Adox XT-3, and Spur HRX

I thought this might be interesting for some, so I created a separate thread from the discussion at https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/similarity-between-fx-39-and-ilfosol-3.198293/ I ran a film/developer comparison recently because I wanted to check two new magazines for my Hasselblad and...
www.photrio.com

I plan a much larger comparison in the coming weeks, and have already ordered some Ilfosol-3 for that as well.
 
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