Lets look at why this makes stand development so great. Well the main advantage, which the process was developed for, is pretty obvious; one of the big problems people run into is overdeveloped highlights that give you blown out white areas in your prints, and underdeveloped shadows resulting in black areas with no detail. You can either develop to control blown highlights and lose shadow detail, or develop for the shadows and get blown highlights. Stand development controls blown highlights because the developer around those areas of the film exhausts and prevents over development. It also lets the shadows fully develop, squeezing every last bit of texture out of them. This makes it amazing for pushing film way past its rated ISO.
Workflow Tutorial #2: Stand Development with Rodinal | J B Hildebrand Photography
Excellent article on stand developing.
Now my only excuse for not doing it is the lack of an eyedropper for measuring such tiny quantities of developer.
Stand developed recipes on FilmDev.
