paul_gaymon

Guy,

There are many good responses already offered, but my two cents for what it's worth:

Recently, I have been shooting quite a bit of 35mm PanF+ and developing in Rodinal. I agree that it can be contrasty and a bit of a difficult film with which to work. It took me a few rolls to get the results I was hoping for.

That being said, I've had good results shooting with and EI of 25 - 32 and developing in Rodinal 1:100 with limited agitation (first 60 sec, then 10 sec every 3 minutes for about 21 minutes at 68 degrees), or semi-stand development (40 - 45 minutes, 60 seconds then 10 sec agitation at the half way point). In other words, I find that it needs plenty of exposure to bring up the shadows, and proper development to control the contrast.

Your mileage may very...

I enjoy the results (good tone, interesting edge effects in some cases, and crisp grain but enlarges well), but it's a much different result than other film/developer combinations.

Paul

I haven't used this model, but you can find the manual at:

http://www.xrite.com/documents/manuals/en/309-42_309_Operation_Manual_en.pdf

You might be interested in Photographers' Formulary as a chemistry source, but they also have technical info - http://www.photoformulary.com.

Digital Truth has many recipes - http://www.digitaltruth.com/.

Two books you might check out include The Film Developing Cookbook and The Darkroom Cookbook.