I found HC110 too grainy for my tastes and used D76 1:1 for normal work and Acufine 1:1 for speed enhancements. The Tri-X Acufine gave me some of the sharpest negatives from Tri-X than any other developer combination - although there was some grain clumping.
For speed, I found the agitation method and rate more important than the developer. 1 minute and 1 inversion dampened the highlights and enhanced the shadow areas. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "gfen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bob, > > Do you mean to not use HC110 at all? I actually started out with Sprint > Developer (which they claim is the same as D76 1:1), and moved over to > HC110 because I figured it was more of a "standard" than some little > company's clone-D76. > > I came to this conclusion when realizing that the Sprint times for pushing > film were way out of line with what other people were recommending (ie, to > push Tmax 400 to 1600, I think they recommended like 40 minutes of > development time!). > > >
