Digital BW, The Print

>  ... XTOL produces a less 'dramatic' image than HC-110, 
> but lends an almost luminous quality...with better, 
> more subtle tonal separations.

When I run out of medium format Tech Pan, Tmax 100 with Xtol will probably
be my choice.  Xtol has the least amount of adjacency I've seen in a
developer.  So, it produces very smooth grain.  I would have considered it
too soft for the enlarger, but with a good scanner and unsharp masking in
Photoshop, I now think low grain is more important than chemically-sharpened
film.

> (And with all the Vitamin C in XTOL plus selenium toning, my pictures are
> so 'healthy' they should live forever!! <G>)

The city sewer police saw my darkroom in house plans and were very concerned
about the health of their sewer system.  Oddly, Microdol X was at the top of
their list of bads.  Xtol was formulated, apparently, in part to avoid these
problems.  The health of the sewer systems is one of its main points.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com