Response to Divided D-76 which formulation and times

Thanks a lot everybody for the sugestions. It seems that every user has his own personal formula. As a next step I left bath A unchanged (100 g sodium sulfite, 2g Metol and 5g hydroquinone), and modified bath B : 50 g sodium sulfite and 2 g borax. This gave me with Tri-x, 5+5 minutes negatives which had about the same density as rodinal 1+100 for 20 minutes. There is not mone density in the shadows and from zone VIII on it becomes softer. I did not print negatives from that roll yet, only measured the zones but according to these values, these muts be quite good negatives. In a next step I will increase agitation (now only once a minute) and the next bath A (after this one is used) will contain only 50 g of sodium sulfite.

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