Pan F/Rodinal question

[adam lowy]

I want to process Pan F with rodinal. The film was shot at iso 50

with one stop added. What development time would you recommend to

get good results.

 

Thanks,

Adam

[stephen hazelton]

"shot at ISO 50 with one stop added"- do you mean you shot it at ISO 25?

 

For EI 50, Ilford shows 6 minutes at 1:25 dilution or 11 minutes at 1:50 dilution. This is on their handy data sheet for the film, at:

 

http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/pdf/Pan_F_Plus.pdf

 

For EI 25, Ilford doesn't show a time, but the Massive Developing Chart at www.digitaltruth.com shows 15 minutes at 1:100 dilution.

 

I've not used Rodinal, perhaps others can confirm if these are reasonable starting points.

[richard_urmonas]

Agfa claims 5 min in Rodinal 1+25 for EI of 50. For EI25

they give the same time, 15min at 1+100. I haven't done Pan F

but these times should be a reasonable start.

[chris_waller]

There are several previous threads on this. Ollie Steiner is a Pan F/Rodinal man - look him up in this forum and check his times.

[tim obrien]

Rodinal 1+200 - 2 hours. Agitate the first 30 seconds then go see a movie.

 

Pan F likes to blow out the highlights. Compensation developing is the only way I have gotten a handle on it.

 

tim in san jose

[b30307]

A great combo in my book! Forget the push or pull routine on Pan-F tho'. Rodinal

doesn't work well that way. Stick w/ 50 speed & use the regular development

times on the bottle. Rodinal used correctly will give you razor sharp negs w/

gradation that's hard to duplicate w/ any other soup. Unfortunately, it will not

forgive your mistakes, (i.e. over/undevelopment will guarantee a visit by the

Grain Monster to your darkroom ). Good luck !

[group 11]

i used to dev panf in rod, but now use pmk. here is the database paste of what i used to use:

 

 

panf 50 rod 1:25 6min 68f

 

i was using it in a controlled light situation. if your highlights looked threatening, you may want to try 5:30 or even the 5 mentioned above.