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What is the grainiest bw film and developer?

Rodinal 1:3! That's nuts. Great pictures.
 
Strange that no one has mentioned caffenol as a developer. Use the formula for slow films on a high speed film e.g. 400 or greater. The Arista/Fomapan films work for this.


Edit note: Curse you autocorrect!
 
Quiver2 said:
Strange that no one has mentioned caffenol as a developer. Use the formula for slow films on a high speed film e.g. 400 or greater. The Arista/Fomapan films work for this.


Edit note: Curse you autocorrect!
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I've used caffenol for developing expired Kodachrome, but not much else. might be worth trying down the line
 
A good deal of fog helps; you end up with a muted negative that needs a lot of contrast boosting to normalize contrast, and that will boost the grain along with it.

Another thing that you could try is to use a red filter; not orange, yellow etc, but red. The red-sensitive part of a panchromatic emulsion tends to be on the grainy side. Of course, you get the particular color response for free to go with it...
 
loccdor said:
Rodinal 1:3! That's nuts. Great pictures.
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Well it certainly is to a Scotsman like me Actually if the same size prints looked similar on a darkroom print I'd say that Rodinal 1+3 looks OK but I do wonder what, if any, improvement there is on 1+25/50

pentaxuser
 
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