Response to Best processing chemicals for B&W?

What film and developer are giving you unsatisfactory results, and how are you doing your processing? You seem to realize than some developers work better with some films than with others, and time and temperature play a large role in grey scale, too. Also, slower films generally have finer grain to start with than the faster films. For example, good old Tri-X is pretty fast and still has what I would call fine grain, but Plus-X is slower, and even finer-grained. I've used Tri-X and Plus-X in D-76 1:1 for a long time and don't notice the grain. I'm sure you'll get lots of other suggestions and observations on this message board, so just hang around.

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