Response to Film developer advice

In small format, FP4 (ISO 125) souped in XTOL 1:1 - 1:3 is a great general purpose combination. XTOL provides full tonal scale, finer grain with most films, higer sharpness at 1:3, 1/3 - 1/2 stop increased speed. XTOL is environmentally friendly to people and earth. I make full frame enlargements and grain is minimal. I use Rodinal and XTOL with 120 film. Film developers roughly fall in to 2 categories, solvent or non-solvent. XTOL and D-76 are solvent or physical developers with dissolve silver. Rodinal belongs in the other category and is considered a acutance developer. If you want increased sharpness Rodinal works great. Others may disagree but these two developers are a great starting point. Most of us may never need anything else.

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