u/Top_Supermarket4672

In the next few weeks I will have the opportunity to shoot a friend's concert and I want to try something different. The combination I have in mind is tri-x and rodinal, mostly because rodinal is all I have left developer wise and because I want to finally shoot some tri-x (low light environment, etc, I've been at that bar before and ASA 400 is a bare minimum even wide open).

I know tri-x is grainny, even more when pushed to 800 as I'm planning to do. I also know about the caveats of rodinal like the speed loss and grain. Overall, I think the gritty look will be perfect for what I'll be shooting.

The thing is that due to the cost of tri-x I haven't shot it all that much so I have little developing experience with it, even more so with rodinal, which I reserve for low speed film (I've been shooting a bulk roll of 64 ASA film for the past year almost exclusively).

My biggest concern is missing the dev time and having thin or very dense negatives. I would greatly appreciate if anyone here has done what I'm planning to do before and is willing to provide development details and possibly a photo of the negatives. The massive dev chart is a great starting point but other than that it offers little to no accuracy for a one time thing like this.

I also really want to avoid buying more than one rolls and another developer for testing due to their price. I'm currently taking up E6 and most of my budget has been going towards that.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Recently, unfortunately after setting up the trays and other chemicals, I discovered my bottle of neutol had gone bad. In need of a replacement currently so I wanted to ask you what are some commercially available paper developers that have a long shelf life (as concentrate). I am not interested in mixing my own from scratch yet but that will happen eventually.

Thanks in advance