Response to Why don't more people use two-bath developers?

Bill, I think Divided D76 has been around for a long time as a formula, just not pre-packaged. I have an old David Vestal book where he talks about it. Actually Camera & Darkroom magazine (now gone) had an issue that dealt with divided dev., I can't remember if Anchell wrote that article or not, but he used to have a column in that magazine as well. Cachet has a dev. called AB-55 that's a two-bath one as well, but I've never used it. I think you can make a 2 bath version of D 23 too. I've gotten the best results from older emulsions, not necessarily the T-grain films. But, I've used alot of TMZ, and TMY in Diafine with modest speed increases. But, like I said, it's not a great combination for certain kinds of lighting, so I don't see it as a universal dev. It's great to have around for emergencies though, like if you shoot a roll of Plus-X at a stop or two under by accident(in bright sunshine), not that this has ever happened to me...

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