Response to Actol

It's a fairly unexciting developer IMHO. Results are somewhere between Rodinal and D76 1:1 in both tonality and sharpness. Grain size is reasonably controlled, but at the same time it's 'well defined', and Acutol doesn't really suit 400 ISO and higher speed films. It really went well with FP4, but that's now been replaced by FP4plus.
All credit to Geoffrey Crawley for formulating an acutance developer that was also able to deliver a good tonal scale, but I think the whole world has moved on a bit since the 1960s.

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