What is the grainiest bw film and developer?

[Graham06]

ORWO UN54 Rodinal 1:3, 1 min 20s, 68ºF, Argus C3

Oh boy, the first three. The composition is a bit weird, but I love the grain and the mist and the branches in the foreground and the lens light falloff. I guess they were quite underexposed?

I wonder how necessary the 1:3 was. e.g would 1:6 or 1:12 give you the same thing?

Sometimes something about the look just grabs you. The first post of #182 for example. I have both UN54 and Double-X in bulk rolls and love the tones normally exposed in HC110 B Don't like the tones of most of the HP5 around post #182, but then why do I like that one? Looking again, there are are no tones. Everything is a silhouette or white snow with a bit of mist indicating distance.

I'm glad you can get this look with films that can be bought today.

 

[Graham06]

Canon Demi EE17 half frame camera. Kodak 4-X. HC-110 B. Ridiculously underexposed. Photoshop heroics. Not sure why I like it. Look at the grain in the crop at 100%

 

[TheGreatGasMaskMan]

Grainiest? Kodak TriX is pretty grainy, but amazingly it holds it together really, really well. The randomness of the exposed clumps make it a fantastic film to shoot.
By comparison, super fast B&W films with ISOs in the thousands were very grainy, often flat, and the grain was less random imho. They had (and may have) a predictable grain. Very noticeable too.
So, I’d say TriX 400 is a best choice. Grainy, but pleasant.

I will be sharing my TX rodinal preliminary sometime in the future.

Oh boy, the first three. The composition is a bit weird, but I love the grain and the mist and the branches in the foreground and the lens light falloff. I guess they were quite underexposed?

I wonder how necessary the 1:3 was. e.g would 1:6 or 1:12 give you the same thing?

Sometimes something about the look just grabs you. The first post of #182 for example. I have both UN54 and Double-X in bulk rolls and love the tones normally exposed in HC110 B Don't like the tones of most of the HP5 around post #182, but then why do I like that one? Looking again, there are are no tones. Everything is a silhouette or white snow with a bit of mist indicating distance.

I'm glad you can get this look with films that can be bought today.

I think the composition in part can be attributed to the argus being a rangefinder, so my composition doesn't line up exactly. also think the lens has a vignette. and keep in mind, I've still got UN 1:1 and push tests to share...