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

Don, To answer your second question about speed loss... If you developed a roll (perfectly) in thus said developer X and then developed in a finer grain film developer like Microdol-X your second roll of negatives would look thinner. A speed decrease would lend itself to finer grain for the most part. A developer with a speed increase like Diafine, due to it's chemical makeup would give you a slightly higher density especially in the shadows. The great thing about Diafine... it is a high acutance developer (on top of a speed increasing) making the edges of the grain sharper there by making your print look sharper! Hope this clears things up. Cheers

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