Response to Advice: BW film/dev combo in the 100 & 400 range?

It all depends what you are looking for. There are no "general" solutions to your problems: If you are looking for very fine grain, than a tabular grain film is o.k, but these films were fine tuned for this and have pretty mediocre acutance and tonal scale. If you are looking for tonality and good acutance than go for a more traditional silver rich emulsion. Also some modern emulsions are more balanced in general quality, such as AGFA APX. Unfortunately there is absolutely no way to combine both. I -- for my work -- think tonality and acutance is more important than grain and therefore use emulsions that give me a good combination of characteristics, with excellent tonatlity as main point: Fomapan T200 and Efke 50. The best way for you to find your film - developer is to experiment. It is the specific "look" of a combination you like that counts. Othe people may have rather different preferces and it is hardly possible to discuss what is better and worse in term of the rather subjective "look".

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