> At this point my best guess is that that vitamin is doing something.(posted 8323 days ago)That parallels my D-23/ascorbate results. Although the negs didn't go brown (I've seen that frequently with other films) grain was definitely finer even in the initial overdeveloped test film. And it was apparently superadditive with metol.
From discussions hither and yon about Xtol, I gather that the big problems with using ascorbate have been shelf life and keeping the stock solution, but maybe that won't matter too much to us home-brew types.