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Interesting print. Not quite sure what to make of it, but I keep coming back to it.

Question.. the trio you posted seem a bit mushy on contrast, shifted toward the shadows. Was this purposeful? I think this one in particular and maybe the stairs could have benefited from more contrast, but I must admit that I prefer prints with lots of contrast.

Nodda, Thank You. I did add contrast - perhaps not enough - afraid it would degrade other parts. I share your fondness for contrast. I'll have to do some testing about contrast vs detail. It was odd that mostly the same metering, exposure gave one location's images low & the other location adequate/high contrast. 'Very much appreciate hearing. I need exactly this kind of help.

It might be the Delta 100. I find my Delta 100 negatives are lower contrast, and have to print at grade 4 to make up the difference.

Try Kentmere 100 developed in HC-110 Dil B. I think you'll like it.

I like the play of lines on this one. The relatively low contrast doesn't bother me, but it'd be interesting to see it in a little higher contrast. When I print I have lately found myself more often than not lowering contrast, which I find odd. But then i'm getting to a point where the negative will tell me what it wants to look like, if that makes any sense.

Kentmere is nice enough -- i've never used HC-110 -- but you also might try the Arista.edu 100 (I develop it in Ilfosol 3) -- for me it's got just the right amount of grain and contrast. I shot FP4+ in my 4x5 a bit ago and hate the way it looks.

Nodda & Chadinko - have either of you had luck w/ Delta 400 or the Fuji Acros? All time happy dance was HP5 in PyroHD (thank you Andrew & Tony Lockerbie). 'Wanted to try some finer grain stuff. My FP4 experience wasn't bad at all - either w/ HC110, D76, but the Pyro has been good to me most. With Acros, I don't have a semi recipe, but the regular 1:1:100 & about 16min (rough - don't have it memorized) was rather contrasty.
Oddly, to my geezerly eyes, the subject looked almost binary - all white and all black. The only mid tones were the shadows in the gussets.
I appreciate your kind help, Gents.

I use Acros and Delta quite a bit but only in HC-110 Dil B (my go-to developer). The diesel generator print I posted a while ago was taken on Delta 100 (I had it erroneously listed as Kentmere 100). It printed to Ilford Multigrade, grade 3. The negatives were nice and contrasty. So I'd say that's not it.

I have used Delta 400 but can't find negatives at the moment. I think it's a bit different than 100 but can't say unless I looked.

Maybe it's the scan?

'Entirely possible I get unintended affects from the scanner. Thx again, Nodda. I appreciate it. My HC-110 experience has been exclusively w/ the highly dilute methods. 'Nothing to lose by higher concentrations, shorter times.

@HiHoSilver I have used Delta 100 and 400 in my 6x6 and 4x5 cameras before, and it's nice enough; I don't remember being dissatisfied with the results I got from the Delta films, in either Ilford or Sprint developers. But when I discovered that the Arista.edu/Fomapan stuff is half the price through Freestyle, I switched to that so I could get more experience shooting the 4x5 and liked it so I stayed with that.

I have never used Acros -- I don't think I've ever even SEEN a roll of Acros -- and I'm pretty simple when it comes to my stuff. I really don't know that much about different films and developers and so on, since I've only been back on the film side for the last couple of years and before that I worked with it in college, so I used what they supplied. I use what I can get locally and what I'm used to, and experimentation costs money and that's always been an issue, especially shooting large format. I've played a little with Microphen and D-76, but it's been years and I'm not really a fan of powder developers. I used to use DD-X a lot but it's less economical to use, the only benefit being the ability to develop Fomapan/Arista 400 and 100 together in the same tank, but switched to Ilfosol 3 because the camera shop that is closer to me has a limited selection of film supplies, and Ilfosol 3 tends to be most plentiful there.

I'm reading about a lot of this stuff, different developers and so on, and I'd like to experiment a little more with them, so I'll probably just pick some up when I get a chance and run some 35mm because it's cheap. But I do like the look I get from the Fomapan/Arista and Ilfosol 3, so I don't plan to ditch that combination in favor of other stuff any time soon.