Has anybody here dunked Kpan200 in Rodinal yet? I have D76 powder I can whip up, but I am doing a batch of other film in Rodinal and would like to make my life easier.
Oscarsmadness wrote:
Has anybody here dunked Kpan200 in Rodinal yet? I have D76 powder I can whip up, but I am doing a batch of other film in Rodinal and would like to make my life easier.
Should be fine, just use a minimal amount of agitation. This is FP4+ with a #15 yellow filter, Holga 120N, Rodinal 1:50
Little update. I did Kentmere 200 @ 200, in Rodinal 1+50, 20C, 10:00, four inversions during initial agitation and two inversions every minute. Density is exactly where I wanted it, contrast is high, sharp and grainy.
I did this in 120 format. The grain is pronounced enough that I would not use Rodinal on 35mm K200.
I will pick up a roll in 35mm at some point (maybe tomorrow!) and will develop it in BW&G as well; I'll post here once I have anything to show but it may not be for a few weeks.
Oscarsmadness wrote:
It looks smooth! I shot 120 too.
I like this developer (Black, White, and Green), but so far have seen two drawbacks:
1. It's very viscous, kind of like honey or warm molasses; it really sticks to your measuring cylinder so it requires a bit more effort to get it all out (I pour it into a 10ml graduate, pour it out into my mixing cylinder, and then pour water into the 10ml graduate and shake it (with my finger over the top), pour that into the mixing cylinder and repeat 4 or 5 times to be sure I get all the developer out. In winter I'll need to keep the bottle upstairs where it's warmer; I think it'll be unpourable if I leave it in our cold basement.
2. Developing times are not available for all films, and I've seen reports that Flick Film's recommended times are way off in some cases. The Massive Development Chart has some data for this developer with a variety of films; I always take those with a grain of salt but failing anything else I'll use them as a starting point. It's apparently the same thing as PC-TEA so I suppose I could use those times as starting points as well where data are available.
I'm going to try it today or tomorrow with a roll of Kentmere 100, which I usually develop with Rodinal, at Flic FIlm's recommended time of 13.5 minutes and see what happens.
I had to guess with development times doing K200 in Rodinal too. Even Massive Dev Chart didn't have what I needed (200 speed, 1+50). It's a new stock, so I'm not surprised that the literature is not out there yet.
Okay, I shot my first roll of Kentmere 200 in 35mm. Developed in BW&G for 12 minutes as before; next time I will give it another 30 seconds as some shots seemed underdeveloped. Definitely more grain than in 120, as expected of course, but not bad by my tastes.
I shot these on Nikon FM3a with Zeiss Distagon 35/1.4 ZF.
Fuji GSW690II, Kentmere Pan 200, Red 25 filter, film rated at 50, Xtol-R, 7:15 at 68F
These are from my first two 120 rolls of this film. Also the first use of the red filter. I missed focus slightly on one of the shots of the boats but I like the results nonetheless. Its another great Kentmere film.
