Some more R09 (Rodinal)! This time with the BIG negative 6X9

This time I tried Rodinal developer with medium format (Fuji GW690III) 6x9.
The film is Fomapan 100, not grainy but I like how it renders.

I still like it for 35mm film but I think the grain is much much pronounce, not ugly but larger and a bit tighter than I'm used to. I'm beginning to get used to it, I'll use it more with slow film (35mm though) and see how would it work. For medium format it shouldn't be a problem with bigger negative.

Meanwhile, here are couple of pictures:

Don't mind the spots on the images, my wetting agent is really bad! :)

Finally I bought and tried Rodinal (Compard R09 one shot) BIG THANKS TO MACODIRECT

I finally bought Rodinal! I contacted many places and stores before with no luck, even Adox they apologized and said they cannot ship it. Freestyle and others are describing it as ORM-D which cannot be shipped except ground shipping.

After 2 years or so, I came across macodirect.de and asked them about R09 one shot (Rodinal formula) and they said they can ship about everything they sale (also rollei and fuji c-41 chemicals which others don't ship internationally).

I shot ilford HP5+ at iso 200 and went ahead with developing, and I was surprised that I can see the grain through 5x loupe and see it clearly! I'm not bothered with the grain as film contain grain and that's what makes it special. HP5+ is a classic cubical grain and it's extremely beautiful with Kodak HC-110. I'm just a little disappointed that after all this wait I believed Rodinal was really special, but I discovered (up until now) I can do the same with HC-110 and do it easily. However, I only tried it with HP5+ and recently with ilford Delta 100. Both looked normal to me, but since Rodinal has a great shelf life I can still try on many other films and keep experiment with it.

Photos will follow.

Enjoy :)

Some more Ektar Goodness :)

Those images were shot with Minolta Maxxum 9 and Sony Macro twin Flash.

I took those images indoor, first image was with SpyderCube to scan the other frames easily and it sure did a beautiful Job. I usually bring SpyderCube with me when I use negative color films and during scanning build on it. 

Those reds are beautiful and I already printed one photo at 13x19" and the photo came out pretty good and I know if I scanned it bigger (drum scan or so) it could look even better, but it's good enough for me :)

Enjoy.