My most-used developer over the years has been HC-110. I found it gets me good results with most films. I generally don't like it for push-processing, it doesn't seem to give a great speed increase.
510-pyro is one I started using a lot last year - good results with a wide range, though a few exceptions. Prefer it at 1+100 standard development where it is beautiful, tried 1+300 stand development with it a few times and found myself burning the highlights easily.
I used to do quite a bit of Rodinal stand development and got good results if I was careful with ambient temperatures.
Rarely I used D-76 as a push processing developer and it did a pretty good job on Fomapan 400, Tri-X and others in 2-stop pushes.
I plan to shoot mainly 35mm, with the most common films being Double-X, Acros (old version), Fomapan 100, Neopan 400 and a few other slow-to-medium speed films. Most of my developer knowledge is at least 10 years out of date. Thanks for your input.
510-pyro is one I started using a lot last year - good results with a wide range, though a few exceptions. Prefer it at 1+100 standard development where it is beautiful, tried 1+300 stand development with it a few times and found myself burning the highlights easily.
I used to do quite a bit of Rodinal stand development and got good results if I was careful with ambient temperatures.
Rarely I used D-76 as a push processing developer and it did a pretty good job on Fomapan 400, Tri-X and others in 2-stop pushes.
I plan to shoot mainly 35mm, with the most common films being Double-X, Acros (old version), Fomapan 100, Neopan 400 and a few other slow-to-medium speed films. Most of my developer knowledge is at least 10 years out of date. Thanks for your input.
