Digital BW, The Print

Scott,
 
> 
> " Xtol is that it is environmentally much more benign than the older
> developers."
> 
> If I remember correctly, Xtol is citric acid based.

Yes.  It seems to have about the finest grain for a full speed developer, in
part because there is almost no chemical sharpening (adjacency effect).  I
considered this terrible in the darkroom, with no easy unsharp masking, but
with the computer, I think low grain may be the better goal.  Sharpening an
image seems to be easier than smoothing out the grain and unevenness that
results from dilute, compensating, high edge effect developers.  So, I took
a roll of Tmax 100 and will develop it in Xtol to see how it scans and
looks.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com