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Gorgeous afternoon yesterday meant a good opportunity to burn a second roll in my F3HP, I had one roll of Tmax 100 left and I decided to try rating it at ISO 50 and also go with a super diluted rodinal stand development with minimal agitation. I am really impressed with the results and I've only scanned 10 shots so far!

 

All of them are with the F3HP and 105/2.5. The chemistry setup was;

 

Rodinal 1:100

3 agitations initially (not quite inversion becuase I had a double tank that was only filled up to cover the one roll*)

3 agitations at 30 min

Timer was set for 59 min but I missed the cut off, probably went 1 hr 10 min or so

 

*I only filled it up to cover the one roll becuase I was thinking that the idea of stand developing is for the developer to slowly exhaust itself and I worried that having twice the needed developer, even with limited agitation might lead to extra development that I didn't want. Not sure this is true maybe someone can educate me.

 

**Second 'innovation' to me I forget where I read this, I think it was on photo.net's b/w darkroom forum but I managed to not squeege this roll preferring to do a normal distilled water with photoflo final water bath then I hung the roll slightly diagonally in my shower to dry. Some combo of getting a low enough photoflo dilution and the diagonal resulted in extra clean images compared to what I'm used too.

Done