View Poll Results: What is your favorite B&W Films Developer?

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  • Rodinal

    40 17.86%
  • Pyro

    64 28.57%
  • Ilford DDX

    16 7.14%
  • Ilford Ilfotec HC

    2 0.89%
  • Kodak D76

    37 16.52%
  • Kodak HC110

    34 15.18%
  • Kodak T Max RS

    9 4.02%
  • Kodak Xtol

    29 12.95%
  • Edwal

    1 0.45%
  • Other

    29 12.95%
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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    XTol. Second is D-76

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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    Pyrocat HD for 8x10 & ULF

    HC-110 for 35mm & 4x5

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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    Eric,

    I have not used rodinal on HP5. I asumed the results would be too grainy. Rodinal makes FP4 look like a grainy medium speed film, but it's a nice tight grain and the gradation is beautiful. Let me know if you try it! And I'll let you know if do as well.

    Brian

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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    Rodinal on Efke 25, though the former is a bit of a PITA to find these days.

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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    PMK Pyro and D76 equally for different reasons

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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    Rodinal 1:50 for everything... It keeps, I'm tight...

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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    Wow, was that my first post here? I've hung around for what seems ages... Brian says about big grain with Rodinal and FP4 & HP5. Yes it's BIG with 35mm film, but with medium and large format, who notices? We're not talking 'nograin' digital. ;-)

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    Re: Poll: Your Favorite B&W Film Developer

    xtol 1:1 is current favorite but just starting to take a good look at precysol ef

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