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

Hello again folks. Sorry about the piecemeal reporting, but I've now printed those fantastic TechPan negatives and wanted to report. These are not only the sharpest negatived I've ever seen, it turns out that they are also among the contrastiest, even though the time in Part B was only 45 seconds. I bracketed around EI of 64, and I'd say that half of the negatives were best at that speed, a quarter at EI of 80 (shadows too thin the rest of the time), and a quarter were best at EI of 50. I printed on Agfa Multicontrast RC with the VC head set on ZERO! and developed in Ansco 130. They are gorgeous! But deep shadow detail is definitely lacking. Now, to try some conventional film. Report to follow.

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