I do small batch processing of my black and white and therefore prefer liquid one shot chemistry. I've been using using Ilfosol at 1+14 for a long time with my workhorse films, 100 and 400 Delta in 120 format. I recently took a look around the Ilford line to see what else was there and bought a bottle of DD-X. According to my local camera shop guy DD-X is quite popular. I did a tank of DD-X on Delta 100 from a controlled lighting portrait shoot. I had rolls developed in Ilfosol to compare to from the same shoot.(posted 8269 days ago)Prints from a smilar neg for each developer looked pretty much the same to me. The DD-X negs themselves look a little denser overall, but the tonal range seems pretty much the same as does grain. So the question is: what do you guys prefer? And have you had experience comparing these two developers? Differences between the two might be more obvious in another type of lighting conditions and subject matter. What are the strengths of Ilfosol and DD-X? And finially, if there are any advantages to DD-X are they worth the extra cost? ($1 a roll compared to $.30 a roll? Thanks!