Michael wrote:(posted 9589 days ago)The BEST developer is PMK (Pyro-Metol-Kodalk.)
Would you care to characterize, in reasonably objective terms, why PMK is the "best" developer? There are many different developers, and they all offer different combinations of visible grain, perceived sharpness, film speed, tonality and ease-of-use (as well as other parameters). Given that each person may have a different notion of what is "good", the idea of a single best developer strikes me as somewhat specious.
Personally, my "general purpose" developer is dilute Xtol. Have a look at the Kodak datasheet for Xtol (J-107, search at http://www.kodak.com/) for the features of this soup, I've found the datasheet claims are essentially true.
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