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from John Hicks (jbh@magicnet.net)
I use an assortment of developers, usually depending on format and what's mixed up or available. Rodinal 1:50, D-76H 1:1 and 1:3 and Ilfosol-S give similar curve shapes and development-change response. Ilfotec should be about the same; I tried it years ago but wandered on to something else.

My "hail mary" N-3+ is usually using D-76H 1:3 at the 1:1 development time at EI 200.

The big drawback of such a contraction is that while it dramatically reduces overall contrast, the paper expands local contrast in the midtones and often leaves the shadows and highlights somewhat too low in local contrast.

(posted 8429 days ago)

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