Response to Why don't more people use two-bath developers?

I always try to keep some Diafine on hand just in case I need to tame some contrasty situation. I've also messed around with using water baths as well, but prefer the Diafine. The problem I think you'd have with using this for everything, is that you can't actually control your contrast this way. So, if you're in a flat lighting situation, or have certain tonalities like white on white, you may get into some serious separation problems. Whenever I've shot film specifically to run through Diafine, I've tried to be conscious of getting some nice raking/modeling effects on my shots. i.e. not direct lighting. It's can be a great dev. sometimes though, and can even save the day if you've messed up your exposures somehow. There are other two bath developers as well, but I think Diafine is the most readily available one there is, short of mixing it up yourself.

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