Response to Delta 400 / xtol development recommendations:

Greetings,

I routinely use Delta 100 in XTOL and have used Delta 400 once or twice. I used Kodak's recommended times for 400 in a rotary processor and the negs came out fine. I never bothered to experiment and test this combo, because I don't use it often. A prewet is not recommended with XTOL in a rotary processor, presumably because as a new developer it has been tested in this configuration and factored in on Kodak's published charts. Notice their processing times are different for rotary processing and hand inversion. As for grain, it is what it is. To get different grain characteristcs, you're better off trying another developer, though XTOL will offer very good grain/sharpness characteristics.

Regards,

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