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I am Looking for a formula similar to (HC-110)

The biggest problem is when people get fixated on specific developers without understanding how substitutable they really are...
I agree with you a lot ,,
I made a great effort to change these ideas rooted in Egyptian minds,
- Some chemical raw materials have run out of me. I had to wait a while to be able to buy a new quantity from one of the suppliers.
Some young men came to me from the northern provinces. They asked me to get some developers.
- I had some amazing packages, all of them a AGFA (12.17.40.42. 70.) >> I gave them those packages, and I said to them, I will only get money from you after you try these formulas first and when you like it ,, I will get my money.
They liked it very much, especially (Agfa 12), and it is now very popular in the northern provinces.
- They said, he shows amazing human feelings.
- The developer (D76) is unpopular because it does not accurately express human emotions ,,, (this is what is said) ,,
- Personally, I am just a seller of optical chemistry (currently) ,, personally, as a photographer, I just love the color film, and I think that God has created the universe colored and not black and white - the black and white film from my view is like the cartoon movie a movie, you watch it and know exactly that it is a world My imagination is not real, yet you like it so much.
 
Last I heard (which admittedly has been a while, before I started doing my own B&W again around 2003) the last lab I took B&W film to was using T-Max in a replenishment system in an auto processor.
 
Last I heard (which admittedly has been a while, before I started doing my own B&W again around 2003) the last lab I took B&W film to was using T-Max in a replenishment system in an auto processor.
Photographic laboratories in Egypt and the Middle East differ greatly - we had close links with (ORWO) and with Eastern companies - so general taste is formed according to certain formulas.
 
The biggest problem is when people get fixated on specific developers without understanding how substitutable they really are...
For negatives for alt processes, I prefer FP4+ for regular use. I have used Dektol, Ilford Universal PQ, HC-110, and a couple of the pryo developers...and have made successful carbon prints and pt/pd prints from all.

I have a lot of crappy negs too. Don't know why I keep them...waiting for The Great Purge, perhaps...

Dektol (straight or 1:1, can't remember) for the neg for this image (4x10 carbon print):
 

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You are a genius artist, man.
There is no argument.
I wish I could be like you.