Response to Di-Xactol developer

I've used a fair amount of DiXactol, and it is worth trying as an alternative to PMK, but only as a single bath developer - as a two bath, there appears to be recurring risk of uneven development, which apparently is due to water quality and contamination rather than to the agitation method. There's probably little to choose between PMK and DiXactol, despite all the talk about the different colour of stain having a different effect when printing on VC paper. Both are very sharp, and come into their own for N and N- development. For N+, I still think that it is difficult to beat Rodinal.

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