Which film developer????

[Gary L. Quay]

More on this here:
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...scan+developer
--Gary

[eddie]

t max developer is awesome. i have bneen using it with my tmax 3200 (at 2000) film. great results.

buy the gallon if you will be in NYC.

[BetterSense]

Nothing wrong with either Rodinal or HC110. Both are similarly cheap and easy to use. I imagine the Ilford liquid developer is similar.

[Paul Kierstead]

I know you said you didn't like powders, but ...

XTOL is easy to mix, pleasant to work with and gives excellent results. I mix up a batch and put it in 250ml bottles (filled right to the top about 290 or so). This tends to result in 15 bottles or so. Each bottle is used for 6 sheets; two bottles if I do 12 sheets in a go. This gives me quite a decent run of processing before I have to remix, and since each bottle is completely full it keeps really well (i've used it up to a year later with no evident ill effects). Liquid fix and stop round things out.

Note 'regular' T-Max developer is for roll films only (don't know what happens if you use it for sheets); I have used it for 35mm and it did work fine. T-Max RS is for sheet films as well; I'll admit I'd like to try it sometime, but it isn't nearly as easy to get as XTOL around here.

[Armin Seeholzer]

Take the best soup its called XTOL and never look back!!!

Cheers Armin

[domaz]

FA-1027 is good stuff, cheap, liquid concentrate easy to use. Non-toxic? I haven't checked the MSDS butl your only putting in 20ml or so per development so it's not exactly a hazard to deal with. You can find it at the Photo Formulary.

[A49]

SPUR HRX III could be an interesting liquid developer. This very new, high tech dev promises finest grain and highest resolution, but the film speed is possibly reduced by one f-stop. The producer highly recommends the combination with TMAX 100.

Rollei RLS LOW SPEED is another liquid developer that is often recommended, if finest grain and good sharpness are the goal. It is identical with CG512, which was over years the reference developer for a darkroom magazine in Germany. The film speed is also reduced here.

Both developers are made in Germany.

Best,
Andreas

[Sirius Glass]

Why I choose XTOL:

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...?pq-path=14053

Grain, Shadow Detail, Sharpness ... Take a look and see if you agree.

Steve