I've gone as dilute as 1:96 (plus a toe-cutter additive) with HC-110, and achieved an excellent low-gamma straight line with FP4. But that is in relation to deliberate technical applications. I've never botched an actual pictorial exposure so bad that I tried to reclaim it in that manner (or if I did, it went straight to the trashcan without even attempting to develop it ). And there's no sense me repeating over and over again why I don't generally like the effect of strong minus or compensating development in a print, though I certainly know how to do that, ala Zone System theory or otherwise. It's maybe only one or two sheet a year that I ever minus develop. But if it works esthetically for someone else, that's all that counts. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
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