I've got a box of TMY in the freezer next to the lahmajoons and the mahi mahi filets. It is my favorite film for night photography and I've always souped it in Tmax RS with great results. The last batch I souped in D-76 and it still looked pretty good. My problem is Tmax RS is hard to find in my town. Well, impossible. None of the shops stock the stuff. It isn't even in the Freestyle catalog. I'm pretty sure it hasn't been discontinued (though I wouldn't be surprised, being Kodak and all....) My problem is that I haven;t experimented with TMY in other developers except for that once with D-76 and that really isn't enough to draw any conclusions from. So for all you TMY shooters: Is Tmax RS the optimal dev for getting the most out of TMY, or are there others out there that do as well? I'm not interested in staining here, I just want the best results in regards to TMY's excellent reciprocity characteristics---or does the developer not have an effect on results when pushing the reciprocity envelope?
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