in the interest of finding an Xtol alternative, I recently have taken on a short study of films in various developers. an observation is the difference in base + fog levels. 120 film, exposed, cut in half, and developed in two different developers often times yielded surprisingly different values.(posted 8416 days ago)after cutting the films, developing, and then splicing back together at the light table, the TMax developed films had an obvious higher gross-fog density than Rodinal or Xtol. I am curious as to why this occurs.