Rodinal Come Back

[Tin Can]

I see many more admitting

Rodinol is used

As you know

Me Too

[Michael R]

It’s not easy to get. B&H seems to have some stock but won’t ship it. I recently got a bottle from Argentix but it’s rare he has any in stock. Freestyle sometimes has it but ground shipping only.

[SimonMaddock]

Availability in Europe is good. I originally bought some as backup but ended up really liking the results with Delta 100 a lot so I kept using it. Handling and price is much better than Perceptol, which was my favourite with fp4.

[paulbarden]

Blue Moon Camera in PDX has the 500ml bottles of R09 in stock (7 bottles)

[Fred L]

It’s not easy to get. B&H seems to have some stock but won’t ship it. I recently got a bottle from Argentix but it’s rare he has any in stock. Freestyle sometimes has it but ground shipping only.

Downtown Camera in Toronto usually stocks it. $21 Cdn

[Mark Sampson]

Agfa has been bankrupt since 2005, so the companies who now manufacture "Rodinal" use different trade names for the product.
I don't know who owns the "Rodinal" trademark, but I assume that they are not manufacturing film developer.
Yet it is indeed out there for sale... just a little detective work necessary.

Full disclosure: I have not used Rodinal since about 1980, through no fault of the developer.

[Dugan]

My default developer has been Rodinal since before Agfa's dissolution.
Adox has been producing Rodinal since, thankfully.
Recently, the European photo-chemical industry has been having difficulties...so we'll see how it all works out.

[Michael R]

Fotoimpex (under the Adox label) makes current Rodinal (or has it made) using the last formula Agfa was using before operations stopped in 2005. Adox/Fotoimpex owns the trademark.

Agfa has been bankrupt since 2005, so the companies who now manufacture "Rodinal" use different trade names for the product.
I don't know who owns the "Rodinal" trademark, but I assume that they are not manufacturing film developer.
Yet it is indeed out there for sale... just a little detective work necessary.

Full disclosure: I have not used Rodinal since about 1980, through no fault of the developer.

[notorius]

What is your experience with the shelf life of the post-AGFA Rodinal(or R09)? I used to soup nearly anything in Rodinal in the past, nowadays I switched to HC-110(the syruppy liquid). Just because there was not the same confidence as with the old one(red AGFA bottle). I tried various Rodinal/R09, all of them had significantly shorter life.Some crystals emerged after couple of months of using and sudden death...There was(maybe still is) very few real producers of the developer, lot of them are just rebadged products, just as with films. This leads to confusion. Last one I tried was Adox Adonal(and even Adox used to sell two different formulas at time!), and crystals in the bottle again. I remember the original Agfa did behave similar but the activity was the same until the last drop.

[Tin Can]

IF I get crystal

I just use the liquid as is

I have no problem with all 3 Rodinol I have now

Some are 20 years old at least

B&H has 3 flavors

I buy the cheapest by the case