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Cross-processing is devel-oping film with the wrong chemicals for wild results. Dunking your E-6 film in C-41 chems creates some blown-out highlights, sharp color shifts, and all around fun. Check out these tips and pics below.

Develop While You SleepHow to stand develop with Rodinal

-by Ed Buffaloe

1:100 Solution, 1 Hour

1:125 Solution, 4 Hours

1:200 Solution, 10 Hours

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Rodinal is Agfa’s trademark name for their con-centrated film developer formula, patented by Dr. Momme Andresen in 1891. It is the oldest continu-ously produced developer formula in the world. A number of “rodinal” formulas have been published over the years. Agfa’s has always been proprietary, but is so cheap and reliable that photographers have rarely mixed “rodinal” themselves (though Photogra-pher’s Formulary now sells a version). Rodinal is not a “fine-grain” developer. When miniature cameras first appeared, Rodinal fell out of favor because the early 35mm films were very coarse-grained, and looked it when developed in Rodinal. But Rodinal regained its popularity as the grain structure in modern emulsions became finer and more consis-tent. Conventional wisdom has it that, with Ro-dinal, whatever grain structure is inherent in a film’s emulsion will be retained in the developed nega-tive. Rodinal negatives may sometimes look more “grainy” than negatives developed in the so-called

fine-grain formulas, but they also have greater per-ceived sharp-ness.

Because Ro-dinal works at high dilutions, it can have a pronounced compensating effect. Com-

pensation occurs when bromide is released in areas of heavy exposure, where devel-opment is rapid and continuous. Bromide slows the development of the high values (zone VII and above), preventing them from becoming too dense to print. High dilutions also enhance adjacency effects, which are produced when areas of high density adjoin areas of low density. Unused developer from low-density areas diffuses over to the edge of high-density areas and increases den-sity even more, while bromide released by intense development in high-density areas diffuses over and helps prevent development on the edge of low-density areas.

Typically the compensating effect is seen at dilutions from 1:50 to 1:100, and can be adjusted to fit any contrast range. I have even heard of dilutions as high as 1:200 for certain applications. Agfa recommends using at least 10 milliliters of concentrate per roll of film, no matter what dilution you use. My practice has always been to use 5 milliliters in 500 milliliters of water for the 1:100 dilution, which may account for the lengthy developing times with some films, but it works just fine. Higher dilutions may cause speed loss, so be prepared to rate your film at about half its normal speed. But speed loss is more than made up for by the superior sharpness and gradation Rodinal produces with most contemporary films.