Rodinal versus Summer Pt. II
First of all, go and find the piece of paper that came in the Rodinal box. Now find ‘Diagram 2′. There are two graphs, one for 1+25, and one for 1+50. Being a little on the ケチ side, we’ll use 1+50.
Two things to initially note, i) the vertical scale (temperature) starts at 18ºC, ii) there are two roughly parallel lines, for 100 and 400 speed film.
Focusing on the APX 400 line, we see that it indicates that an increase in temperature of 3ºC reduces the development time by 4 minutes. If we assume that Tri-X will have similar behaviour to APX 400, it will have a (roughly) similar, and therefore parallel line on this graph. If you now draw a line, parallel to the APX 400 line, that passes through your known time and temperature (13min @ 20ºC, in my case) you can get a starting point time for higher temperatures.
Unfortunately the Agfa graph is skewed towards high values by the long development time for APX 400, but simply judging by eye, it’s easy to see that 13min @ 20ºC corresponds to 9/10min @ 23ºC. I’ve tried this with Tri-X and got results that i can’t distinguish from my usual efforts… as i’ve read that higher temperatures can yield more grain, i limited agitation to an initial 30s of gentle inversions, and two gentle inversions every minute.
Personally i’m not going to push this any further than 24ºC, as that’s the limit of the Agfa graphs. This doesn’t seem like it will be an issue… unless it stays really warm for several weeks.
Ice cubes? You’re all nuts – grow a pair and read a graph!
If I pretend to know what you just said, will people finally start taking me seriously?
unlikely… but it’s worth trying. (i’ll let you know how it works for me.)
Photography is about photos…
Very much, which why you shouldn’t be wasting your time messing about with ice cubes, when you could be done with development and out pointing that camera at things…
I wrote all of the above while drunk. Probably sounds like it by the end. What i really wanted to get across is that a lot of development discussions sound like the telling of tales, legends of lore, but in reality the information is out there to be used. It’s just not presented in a very easy to understand format.