Do Zone System equal the different developers characters

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I bought an Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 camera and I will develop Tri X film at home and than scan them. I tried to look for different developer use negative scan galleries and I found that XTOL gives the most shadow details and its curve is S shaped , most contrast goes to midtones.I looked to HC110 B and its curve is U shaped and most contrast goes to highlights.

If I calibrate the development times and exposure details of film, temperature and agitation , Do zone system equals these two developers ?

Thank you,

Umut
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[ic-racer]

The Zone system was developed to match negatives to photographic printing paper. If you are scanning, then you will have to come up with some system on your own

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I am not fan of photo editing , whatever I do , software makes it worse than the original scan. My photographic paper is monitor , may be I can return to my older ideas and develop bw film to positive and tone with palladium and attach to a wall light glass apparatus. I am thinking to do that with 6x17 anamorphic pinhole camera negatives and now its time to make a camera like f295 cameras because I will start to buy these films.

My question , we have one camera , two rolls of tri x and same photograph on these films. We applied zone system for two different developers for printing papers , is it possible to get same prints ?

Umut

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Thank you Michael , Can we change the curve of a developer with using for example D23 or simpler developer. I think playing with agitation, heat, dilution is much simpler than playing with chemicals. I think with few integridient developer , and making recipes for different curves is like making a HiWatt Amp without soldering but hand bending the cables.