D-76; Mixing Small Batch?

[martiansea]

I mixed up my first batch of D-23 and gave it a try this past weekend. I am very pleased with the results so far, and it seems to have many of the qualities that I like about Perceptol. I'll keep using it and see how it works out for me, and may try some of the Perceptol-like formulas that have been posted here.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

[LabRat]

D-23 is a good formula for large negs that do not need much enlargement, but for very large prints or smaller formats (requiring more enlarging), there can be a slight mushy look due to lesser "edge" sharpness... 120 film shows it at normal enlargement, but slightly improves with the D-25 variation (at loss of some film speed)...

But D-23 has wonderful tonality, and is reusable until it turns dark brown and smells like bad sour sulfur...

Steve K

[Carsten Wolff]

If you had crap results with Rodinal, try HC110 with your Ilfords. Awesome stuff and last for a very long time; not that easy to find outside the US these days.....its like a syrup, so you can fill small bottles if you want to (although I never needed to)