Response to Fine Grain Development

Your point about using a slower film is correct. A developer like Microdol X is a fine grain developer but so is Diafine. The difference is visual. Diafine negs. will have a tendency to "look" sharper because it is a high acutance developer which means that it will sharpen the edge effects of the grain. A high Sodium Sulfite developer will definitely mush the grain... D23 comes to mind here with it's LARGE amounts of Sulfites but for large format shooters, this isn't a real issue.

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