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A friend just gave me a bottle of Rodinal. What difference should I notice using it with FP4+ as compared to my usual combo of FP4/Xtol (or occasionbally HC-110)? I've heard Rodinal gives exquisite tonality, whatever the heck that means
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Not in my experience. I had a full plastic bottle in my fridge in

the darkroom for about 6 years. (This stays at 35 to 37 degrees all

year long.) I then decided (having obtained a densitometer) to run

some film speed tests on Agfa 25 roll film. I was coming up with

numbers like "5," finally figured out I needed fresh developer,

bought a new bottle (how new is in on the shelf?) and reran the tests

and came up with "17", so the old developer was costing me about a

stop and half of film speed. The bottle I bought which was fresh is

now a year old, and has been opened, and if I use it I get great

results. So I guess it keeps for a while, but don't overdo it. It

doesn't seem to go on forever like HC110 yellow syrup. The older

stock had changed colors away from the sepia-ish color to more

brownish.

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Hi, I was just stand developing some Ilford Ortho Plus with Rodinal

100:1 for 30 min. and I got some blotching in the sky area. So, I

don't know about stand developing at 100:1. I've done it before and it

worked. I don't know what happened. This was a 12min exposure among

buildings at night. Best, David

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