You might want to check out pages 226 and 229 in Adam's _The Negative_. He
discusses using very dilute HC110 (1:119) with very minimal agitation (15
seconds every 3 minutes.) I did a lot of my development with Classic Pan
using a similar approach and liked the results.
Earlier today I tried the "water-bath" process that Adams describes, using
APX 100. He cautions that it is not as effective with thin emulsion films,
and I can't say that the result I got was much different than just a high
dilution / low agitation approach to developing, but the negs came out with
excellent shadow detail in a very high contrast scene - so it did seem to
work.
I've found HC110, diluted 1:100, works great with APX - 14 minutes @ 20C. I
stumbled into that somewhere on the internet - it's the only time I've seen
HC 110 used at 1:100, but it works well with gentle, one per minute
agitation.
I'd be interested to hear your impressions of R09 if you give it a try.
Good luck!
- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Getting That Old Fashioned Glow - Coming Along
Yep, Rodinal's been around a l-o-n-g time, and it seems that the formula
has changed over the past hundred years or so. There are several
different
Rodinal formulas floating around and I think I'm going to try R09 in
addition to the current stuff that's now in the darkroom. The technique
of
high dilution and long development times is especially appealing. For the
most part I've used it @ 1:100 with five seconds of very gentle agitation
once per minute. I'd like to try about half that agitation cycle at some
point.
