Response to Highest resolution B&W film (+ dev) other than Tech Pan?

Three years ago I ran comparison tests on a bunch of film/developer combinations, and found the following produced the "sharpest" negatives: 1)Kodak T-Max 100 in Rodinal(1+50), 2)I couldn't tell the difference between the next four, so listed them alphabetically: Agfapan 25/Rodinal, Ilford Delta 100/Rodinal, Ilford Pan F/Ilfosol, Kodak Tech Pan/Technidol, all followed closely by 3) Agfapan 100/Rodinal, Ilford XP2 super/C-41, Kodak T-Max 400/C-41, and finally: 4)T-Max 100/T-Max. Nothing else came close to these. More recently, I have been developing Tech Pan in Diafine and get the sharpest negatives I've ever seen. But it's tricky, and the excess contrast is still a problem.

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