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Equipment & Techniques => The Wet Darkroom => Topic started by: johnbeta on August 26, 2009, 06:44:44 pm

Title: Rodinal
Post by: johnbeta on August 26, 2009, 06:44:44 pm

I would like to know if anyone can obtain Rodinal developer and from where
Johnbeta

Title: Rodinal
Post by: bill t. on August 27, 2009, 03:04:49 am

There is someone selling 125ml bottles on ebay.

Wonderful developer, beautifully rich tonality and super edge sharpness.  Lots of grain, but I see there are formulas that add stuff to smudge the grain a bit.  I always used it straight.  On 4x5 sheet film it had a lot of the characteristics of ABC Pyro except there was no tanning and hence no corresponding contrast bump.  It is probably the closest you can get to the look from the old thick emulsion sheet films, using modern thin emulsions.  Don't forget the eyedropper and a 20ml precision graduated cylinder.

Title: Rodinal
Post by: situgrrl on August 27, 2009, 12:09:21 pm

www.silverprint.co.uk is where I get mine from.  It's now labelled RO9 since the demise of Agfa but it's all good.  I ought to order some more actually....

Title: Rodinal
Post by: johnbeta on August 27, 2009, 02:52:27 pm

Thank you for the tip, I still have some 10 rolls of the Kodak B&W Infrared in the freezer which I used to use with Rodinal with some mouthwatering and dead sharp grain and a different tonality than the usual D-76 combo plus the added acutance (now called edge oversharpening lol,
JohnBeta

Title: Rodinal
Post by: situgrrl on August 27, 2009, 05:14:07 pm

Post them up when you are done then - I've nver played with IR as it doesn't suit my work but I love the results I've seen.

Title: Rodinal
Post by: TMARK on August 28, 2009, 10:53:15 pm

Quote from: johnbeta

I would like to know if anyone can obtain Rodinal developer and from where
Johnbeta

NYC:  Calumet, Adorama, and B&H.  B&H won't ship.

Title: Rodinal
Post by: nik on August 29, 2009, 01:57:52 am

PhotoSupply in San Francisco has it. 2nd/Bryant.

-N

Quote from: johnbeta

I would like to know if anyone can obtain Rodinal developer and from where
Johnbeta

Title: Rodinal
Post by: patrickfransdesmet on August 29, 2009, 03:15:11 pm

I can still buy as much Rodinal as I want in Belgium/Europe through www.elka.be

Title: Rodinal
Post by: PaulHarris on December 02, 2009, 11:43:14 pm

Quote from: johnbeta

I would like to know if anyone can obtain Rodinal developer and from where
Johnbeta

Hope by now you found a source for Rodinal. If not, try Freestyle Photographic Supplies. G'luck

Title: Rodinal
Post by: Thomas Krüger on December 03, 2009, 02:05:21 am

You can also mix your own Rodinal, the formula is public:
in german: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodinal (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodinal)
http://www.digitaltruth.com/data/rodinal.php (http://www.digitaltruth.com/data/rodinal.php)

Some history from an old AGFA webpage:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010208144435/...03_2/index.html (http://web.archive.org/web/20010208144435/http://www.agfaphoto.com/de/magazin/200003_2/index.html)

Title: Rodinal
Post by: dwdmguy on December 04, 2009, 07:21:52 pm

And add an 18 pct EDTA T salt bath if using a Jobo or any rotoary processor.

Title: Rodinal
Post by: patrickfransdesmet on April 08, 2010, 04:49:10 am

rodinal is back
see: www.adox.de

cheers

Title: Rodinal
Post by: eddysmit on April 08, 2010, 05:17:38 am

Quote from: dwdmguy

And add an 18 pct EDTA T salt bath if using a Jobo or any rotoary processor.

Sounds interesting.
What does it do?
And what is the T? I can find info about EDTA, but not about EDTA T