Rodeo on film

[timbertoes]

Hammered the grain with Rodinal.. oh well. still fun.
expired film too.. expired while still in the camera!

here are two images. Still scanning.

[venchka]

Small town rodeo. Love it. someday I'll have time. Good work.

[timbertoes]

just thinking. I am probably confusing comments I have read about Rodinal with the intrinsic grain of a 400 speed film. In this case, Agfa APX 400.
I am just a hack at developing :)

[venchka]

Agfa 400 belongs in Rodinal. What dilution? My Rodinal Guru also says to back way off and agitate gently. Like once every 3 minutes. As I recall, he develops APX 100 at 1:100, 15 minutes @ 75°F. Agitates very gently once every 3-5 minutes. I'll double check and be back.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with grain. Without grain, all of our photographs would look like digital.

[venchka]

Here you go. From user Trius (Earl) at the Rangefinder Forum. Send him a PM and pick his brain.

APX100 @ 100, Rodinal 1:100, 20 minutes, 30sec. agitation then 3 inversions every 3 minutes.
The key with Rodinal is to dial way back on agitation compared to other developers and the "standard" (who made it a standard, and when, anyway?) of agitating every 60 or 30 seconds.

Adjust for APX 400.

[timbertoes]

I agitated too much then. :) 1:50 dilution. I will use it again, no doubt!
I look at film as an experiment, always an experiment. Of Course, there have been some film photos that I took real seriously, and made every effort to get the best results.
And I was rewarded with some good results.